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@atomicpoet @alienghic @Lazarou @cstross There is nothing in this comment and quote I disagree with.

What I disagree with is a religion evangelizing at an empire for 300 years, and when they finally succed someones comes along 1700 years later and says "look, typical empire, they just appropriated that stuff, as they do".

They do, but this is the worst example possible unless your point is that Paul appropriated and romanized a fringe Messianic Judaic sect for his own purposes.

As for Europe outside Constantine's Roman Empire, they were victims of Constantine's Roman Christianity. They/we appropriated many things over the centuries, but not this one.