The Christianization of Europe was one of the most thorough acts of cultural erasure in human history — a process that took centuries, burned libraries, toppled temples, and systematically replaced an entire continent’s heritage with a single foreign faith. If this happened today, we’d call it what it was: cultural genocide.Before Christianity, Europe wasn’t a dark, barbaric wasteland waiting for the light of Christ. It was a continent of astonishing diversity. Every tribe, every region, had its own gods, its own rituals, its own myths explaining the world around them. From the Norse and the Celts to the Greeks, Romans, Balts, and Slavs — these weren’t just “religions.” They were complete worldviews, deeply tied to the land, the seasons, the ancestors, and the community.Christianization shattered that.When Christianity spread, it wasn’t through polite debate or rational persuasion. It was through conversion by the sword, imperial decree, and systematic destruction of everything that came before. Temples were torn down or converted into churches. Sacred groves were cut down. The Library of Alexandria — gone. The temples of Olympia — sacked. The last philosophers of Athens — silenced. In the north, the stories of Odin, Freyja, and Thor were driven underground until the Icelandic sagas barely survived as Christianized echoes of what once was. In the east, Slavic and Baltic gods vanished almost entirely, remembered only through fragments and folklore.
>>18062670The Christian Church didn’t just suppress “paganism” — it rewrote the past to make paganism look evil. It turned old gods into demons, old festivals into Christian holidays, and old heroes into villains. Even the word pagan itself became an insult — from the Latin paganus, meaning “country-dweller” — because the old faiths survived longest among rural folk who couldn’t be reached by the new religion’s urban power centers. It was a propaganda campaign centuries before anyone coined the term.Now, people might say: “But Christianity brought civilization, literacy, and morality!” That’s an illusion built on selective memory. Pagan Europe already had sophisticated law codes, art, philosophy, astronomy, and ethics long before the Church claimed to invent them. The Greeks gave us democracy and philosophy. The Romans gave us law and engineering. The Celts and Germans had complex oral traditions, poetry, and rich moral codes about honor, kinship, and hospitality. These were not amoral savages — they simply saw the sacred differently.
>>18062675And here’s where paganism shines in contrast: it was pluralistic, earth-centered, and tolerant of difference. Pagans didn’t demand that everyone worship the same god or die. They could adopt and syncretize foreign deities without erasing their own. The Romans worshiped Egyptian gods, the Greeks adopted Phrygian and Thracian ones, and Celts and Norse blended their pantheons across borders. Paganism understood that the divine was too vast to be confined to one name, one book, or one creed.Christianity replaced that with dogma — a single truth, one way, one book, one Church — and punished deviation as heresy. Entire cultures were homogenized under the cross. What had once been a living mosaic of beliefs turned into a monochrome empire of the mind.Even today, the effects linger. We lost countless myths, epics, and works of art because they were deemed “pagan” and destroyed. We lost the spiritual connection to the natural world — replaced by the idea that nature exists to be subdued and dominated. We lost the freedom to see the divine in everything, not just in a single abstract deity.The old gods never demanded universal obedience — they demanded respect, courage, and balance. Paganism taught reverence for the cycles of nature, the wisdom of ancestors, and the sacredness of place. It wasn’t about sin or salvation; it was about harmony — with yourself, your people, and your world.So yes, the Christianization of Europe was a cultural genocide. It extinguished entire civilizations of thought, replaced them with one dogmatic system, and destroyed the soul of an entire continent.
>>18062670Pagan culture wasn't wiped out, it was just intergrated into Christian culture. Tell me what the days of the week are if you think otherwise. The pagan mythos died off, but how many people were even literate enough to preserve them in these times? Paganism died well before mass literacy and the printing press. Some pagans converted by the sword, most weren't. Neopagans have a victim complex that puts SJWs to shame.
the world would be incredibly boring if Christianity managed to fully cover it. I'm so glad it destroyed Europe and plunged the west into superstition and fear just to not even last 2 millennia
>>18062686no it's over. No one give a shit about paganism and they only think them as christ. Most people think neo pagan is larping because their root is destroyed forever. It over bro.
maybe giant centralized empires aren't a good thing
Thanks ChatGPT really great work
>>18062670Many pre-Christian "traditions" were Roman imperial imports themselves systematically erasing the far older truly indigenous cultures they had colonized for centuries prior.
>>18063352cope brown retard. At least their religion still exist. Your christ kill all the fucking religion.
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>>18062670>Neopagan LARPEnjoy Hell, loser. I'll laugh heartily at your agony.
>>18063484SAAAR
>>18063566First thing i saw and then immediately disregarded the rest. op may even be right but if you use shit ai images i vill not care
>>18062670True, same with islam on middle east
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>>18064071The spread of Christianity was not glorious conquest.It was more like the spread of a disease like plague, in that it’s not something you should celebrate.
Could be worse. Christianity ended up being relatively syncretic and not so restrictive and dumb as Islam, giving rise to the renaissance, th enlightenment, etc.
>>18062670you know what's cultural genocide?AI "art"and you are actively participating in it
>>18063348low IQs cant tell human text from AI text apart and unironically use this stupid rhetoric
>>18065017You are absolutely right — that's exactly what we are observing in this thread. Complaining about AI text generation isn't just a pointless witch hunt — it stifles, derails, and stalls conversations. Let's call it what it is: virtue signaling. It's shallow, pedantic, and sanctimonious. We could do with a little less self righteous finger pointing and a bit more critical thinking.
>>18062670> Cultural genocideNPC term for what was just history. Pagans were killing each other for centuries, their "diverse" cultures were built on conquest and human sacrifice. Christianity didn't even "erase" them, it absorbed and converted their holidays and traditions. "Sacred groves" you cry about were where they hung corpses from trees. Library of Alexandria was burned multiple times by pagans themselves long before Christians. Christianity brought a unified moral code, literacy, and the foundations of Western law. You're just seething that your LARPing religion lost to a better organized one.
>>18066365this is culture genocide not kill other people. No, no one know shit about pagan religion or greece religion. Everything they think about this religion is larping and you say that they are killing people so christian have the right to kill them too? The difference is they kill them becasue they are conquer not about religion reason. >holidays and traditionsdo you know if europe doesn't have englighment period. The fucking olympic is abolished.https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=MNxxg_1baX4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F
>>18066365tell me about existence of these festival in rome.Saturnalia:When: Originally a one-day festival on December 17th, later extended to seven days (until December 23rd). Honored: Saturn, the god of agriculture. Activities: A public banquet followed by a period of revelry, gift-giving (often gag gifts or small pottery figures called sigillaria), and feasting. Significance: Work and business stopped, and social norms were flipped, with slaves being served by their masters. The festival was a lively, carnival-like event. Lupercalia:When: Held annually between February 13th and 15th. Purpose: To avert evil spirits and purify the city, promoting health and fertility. Activities: A ritual began with sacrifices of goats and a dog. Afterward, two priests, called the "Luperci," had their foreheads touched with a bloody knife and then wiped clean with milk, after which they were required to laugh. The priests would then run around the city, striking people with strips of the sacrificial goats' hide. Terminalia:When: Celebrated on February 23rd. Honored: Terminus, the god of borders. Activities: Owners of neighboring properties would adorn the statue of Terminus on their shared border with wreaths and offer sacrifices of grain, honeycombs, and wine. A public ceremony was also performed at the sixth milestone along the road to Laurentum.
>>18066365https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_festivalsI DON'T SEE ANY CHRISTIAN THAT PRESERVE THESE FESTIVAL. THE FACT IS THAT THE PAGAN TRADITION IS DESTROYED FOREVER. NO ONE KNOW WHAT THEY DO? IF EVERYONE REVIVE THIS SHIT. PEOPLE WILL CALL THEM LARPING. AND YOU SAY IT NOT CULTURAL GENOCIDE?
>>18066496Based.“Romans” aren’t even European and they enforced Jewish slave protocols on aryans because they knew the Neanderthal DNA was too strong and eventually they would revolt.
>>18066504THE FACT IS THAT YOU NEVER KNOW HOW BEAUTIFUL PAGAN CIVIL FESTIVAL ARE. YOU NVER KNOW THAT SHIT. IT OVER AND EVEN YOU REVIVE.MOST PEOPLE WILL SEE YOU AS LARPING EDGY KID. THIS IS BRUTAL TRUTH AND AS TRUE EUROPEAN PEOPLE YOU HARDLY ACCPET THAT TRUHT. I NEED TO SAY IT IS LONG GONE FOREVER. EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS JESUS THIS JESUS THAT. LOOK AT PAGAN FESTIVAL EACH FESTIVAL HAVE EACH GOD WITH BEAUTIFUL NAME. SO CULTURE AND DIVERSITY. NOT SOME JEW SHIT ONE GOD. JUST IMAGINE THAT.
>>18062670>cultural genocideai slop is the new cultural genocide
>>18066516If you're going to use meth, spend the time stimfapping instead of posting on /his/
>>18062670Did med women really look like that?
>>18067596No, those are men.
>>18066365>Christianity brought a unified moral code, literacy, and the foundations of Western lawYeah that was a mistake.
>>18068080>Good thing is..............LE BAD ACKSHUALLY
>>18068087The western world is currently collapsing. Christianity erased thousands of years of unique cultural tradition just to not even hold up against a generation of zoomers with jew memes on their phones.
>>18068088>The western world is currently collapsing.Due to atheism, not Christianity. Put the blame on the right place.>hristianity erased thousands of years of unique cultural traditionAnd nothing of value was lost. Paganism is evil and needs to be erased.
>>18068094>Put the blame on the right place.Okay. Due to Plato, who the jews ripped off when they came up with the Septuagint, from which the jews then midrashically invented their messiah character and wrote the New Testament, which they then spread to goyim to avoid infecting themselves with its poison, which then allowed them to move in without getting ethnically cleansed, and from there gain absolute monopoly on banking since the goyim were forbidden from doing it by the religion the jews gave us. Once that stage was complete, they had no further need to prop up christianity, and instead switched the programming to liberalism and marxism and all the whateverisms of modernity.You're a reactionary running GolemOS 1.0 thinking that the problem is that we've switched to GolemOS 1.3>atheismChristianity is for all intents and purposes the beta version of atheism. You are so far removed from being a religion it's not even funny. You're barely a philosophy.>European culture>nothing of valueMay your balls wither and fall off.
>>18068151>Okay. Due to Plato, who the jews ripped off when they came up with the Septuagint-Stopped reading right there.Get fucked, schizo. Paganism is dead and gone. That pathetic cucked bitch Julian's sad attempt at reviving paganism is the ultimate proof that it's never coming back.
>>18068210>Stopped reading right there.Good goy.
>>18068280Those flames just got hotter.
>>18068290Celsus listed many reasons for how his Roman readers could easily deduce that Christianity was endangering their unity and the stability of the Empire. According to him, Christianity originated from Judaism, whose adherents, although living within the Empire, had already revolted against Roman rule several times. The Christian community then became further divided among themselves, and Celsus complained that "matters are determined in different ways by the various sects".[19] This dissension between different factions within Christianity proved to the Romans that Christians who could not even draw together under their own shared beliefs were naturally a divisive people and not only caused friction within their own philosophy but would disrupt the unity of the Empire. Finally, Celsus and other Roman writers believed that "Christians are dangerous precisely because they put the advancement of their beliefs above the common good and the welfare of the state".[20]The secrecy in which Christians met and practiced was another problem for Celsus. He commented that they "entered into secret associations with each other contrary to law".[21] Celsus stated that there was nothing wrong with swearing allegiance to a king or emperor, as he provided the stable environment in which all citizens could freely live, and in return it was the duty of each Roman citizen to assist the Emperor and "labor with him in the maintenance of justice".[22]Celsus provided only one solution to solve the problems that he believed Christianity would inevitably create within the Empire. He commanded that Christians must both respect the Emperor and perform rituals to the gods of the Roman state. If they could not or would not participate in the Imperial religion they must not "take any share in the affairs of life; but […] depart hence with all speed and leave no posterity behind them".[23]
>>18068631Who cares?
>>18068631Wikipedia copypaste is gayer than sucking cocks. Might as well copypaste chatgpt too while you're at it.
There are people in this thread (idiots) who think of the Christian view if Christianization in reverse. That Europe was some phenomenal land of light that was plunged into darkness. This is a mistake. Just because something bad happens to someone doesn't mean thst person is good. It's like converting to Fsulin Gong because China treated them shitty. There are some in this thread saying Christianity plunged Europe into superstition when that's just not true any religious society, Pagan, Christian, Muslim etc. is fundamentally going to be superstitious.Societies should not be Pagan or Chrisitan, or Muslim. They should have a secular foundation thst can look at religions as the ideologies they are an ld evaluate them on a logical level.Thst being said, this thread is not about defending Paganism or demeaning Christianity. The title is "The Christianization of Europe was cultural genocide" and is written and argued very well and, as a Christian, genuinelymade me think and reflect (my praise to OP). This I'd like if a thread about Christopher Columbus and the Christianization of the Americas devolved into saying we should live in pit huts, hunt, and use every part of an animal carcas. Stupid.Then again, who am I kidding? I know what fucking site I'm on. You people probably haven't and are just going to call me either a christcuck or Pagan larper because you can read at a fucking ninth grade level. Some of you are probably even fucking middle schoolers so that comes as no suprise. Get off 4Chan and do your fucking homework.
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