Why is religion especially Christianity so widely practied?

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Perhaps for you that’s true, its just not true for them, or for many believers, who find little values in the ancients poets and philosopher you might like. They find a great deal more value in books like Job, or the story of Joseph and his brothers, of David and Nathan, of Jonah, of Christ’s death and suffering, of Exodus.

For black slaves the story of Exodus, of Christs suffering and redemption were far more valuable than anything those rich ancients poets and philosophers could offer.

That's not at all how or why transported people came to christ. It was valuable -to their owners-. Good on them for finding something in there after having been forcible stripped of their own rich ancient poetry and philosophy, but let's make sure we don't start combining christian apologetics with revisionism for the billionth time. The worlds had enough of that.

The same was broadly true of european and classical pagan populations, whose rich ancient poetry and philosophy the christ spreading lot simply couldn't get enough of. They decided, like we do, to steal it and claim it for themselves, lol.

Stop erecting strawman, I didn’t say anything how they came to Christ.

Story like that of Exodus were valuable to slaves, in fact Slave owners would edit out such narratives from the version of the Bible they gave slaves, for fear of the sort of connection they might have made with it.

It should come as no surprises as to why slaves would have connected to a narrative in which God frees his people out of slavery out of hand of their oppressors, and why slave owners were so worried about such narratives that they felt the need to edit them out of their own holy books.