Christianity still preaches idiocy. There were cruel parts to Christianity and pre-Christian Rome, but stupidity, fanaticism, intolerance, pretense, and hatred of enlightenment came with Christianity. And in my pinion the Greco-Roman mythology was far more noble than the Jewish one. In the former you have proud heroes, in the latter you have servile rats who compete for servility to some pretentious psychopathic deity who got beat up by a trembling dimwit (Jacob-Israel).
Kraichgauer wrote:
I think it should be remembered, the religion and culture of the people outside of the Roman Empire, in northern Europe, had been violent and bloody. Human sacrifice and blood feuds were common place. That came to an end only because of the arrival of Christianity. Most of the Barbarian tribes who had overrun the western half of the Empire were at the time either by and large already Christians, such as the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, and Vandals, or were soon converted while on Roman soil, such as the Franks - and while their behavior wasn't exactly exemplary, neither was it as terrible as Roman conduct centuries before. The only major Barbarian invasion onto Roman soil conducted by pagans had been done by the Anglo-Saxons in Britain, and that was recalled by the native Romano-Britons as an absolute bloodbath.
And as bad as the history of Christianity had been throughout the past, the Christian religion today - with the exception of a handful of anti-abortion types and homophobe extremists - most Christian theology teaches love your neighbor today. Christians today can not seriously be lumped in with their ancestors.