Christianity vs Pagan Religions

Source of it being older than christianity?

Consider the ancient Greeks and Romans... There was no Book of Zeus that the priest would read from every Sunday, the gods were useful metaphors for repeating patterns in history and human nature, and they didn't really care what you actually believed. Then along came the Christians and it wasn't enough for them, that you participated in the public rituals, you had to believe too. The Romans were perfectly happy to let people they conquered or otherwise incorporated into

The christianity's history is not clean either.

Christianity (and Islam after it) has the unique characteristic of being the first to claim that it was both universal (applied to all of humanity, not just one's tribe/city/language/culture) and that it was exclusively true -- no other belief systems were considered real. Even Judaism allowed for difference between Gentiles and Jews. Christianity admits no other belief systems beside itself. For all of humanity.The 'pagan' Romans were astounded at the intoleranc

It was part of our culture before Christianity emerged, it remained part of the culture afterwards. Seems like Christianity didn’t have much to do with it.

Wrong. This is essentially the context in which we still live today though we’ve secularized substantially over the past centuries. But Rome was on the path to Christianity at this time and later converted, so this is a very common way to understand things. Generally a work is one of a few things: Christian, Jewish, maybe Muslim depending on whom you ask, as it’s also an Abrahamic faith, or Pagan.To be honest this feels more like you have an axe to grind with Christianity or its dominance, si

That's because they did it centuries before Christianity?

Christianity didn't even really exist at that point, if would have been a minor cult.So it doubly makes no sense.It is definitely not correct, it's the equivalent of calling the ruins Italian instead of Roman.

At certain points in its history, Christianity was fairly eager to ingest aspects of existing religions if it meant that they got the account (conversion). This eventually became controversial (eg see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Rites_controversy), but a lot of early regional Christian saints, say, are, well, suspiciously similar to pre-existing deitie

I’m not sure what point you mean to make about Christianity. Judaism is also monotheistic, and predates both Christianity and the Romans. The Romans did not think Jews were crazy. Rome didn’t try to suppress Christians because of their belief in one god. They tried to suppress Christians because of violence and not respecting the state religion.