The so called "pagan roman empire" worked so well they decided to ditch paganism entirely, **guess why** Judaism didn't took over the roman empire. You can't tell the difference between christianity and judaism, that's an entire different issue. And it's more a case of the roman empire taking over christianity as a means to achieve some sort of cultural/religious unity throughout its territories than anything else. Romans were pragmatic people, not exactly stones and trees worshippers. Roman empire didn't need christianity to fall apart btw. I wouldn't need to point that out if you really knew anything about the collapse of the roman empire. They ran deficits to no end like crazies and came up with every excuse under the sun to tax and confiscate assets let and right in order to continue to do so until the very end. That alone is enough to ruin any empire. No wonder nobody wanted to be part of any of it beyond that point, but I digress. Now what has paganism achieved? It's dead since what? 2000 years? While christianity survived up to this day (survived the roman empire collapse, survived the dark ages and muslim invasion, survived the collapse of the USSR...). Needless to mention that it is the foundation of western civilization (one of the reason why jews hate it so much btw) And anyway, what paganism are you even talking about? **The list of european pagan deities is so long the board here refuses to take it, I can't even post it here! How practical is that? It's a fucking magic thinking mess! How are you supposed to achieve any sort of unity with that sort of shit?** https://pagan.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_Deities#Europe Hence, why romans decided to ditch paganism entirely, and go for a "one vision, one purpose" cult