Were other European religions better than Christianity?

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You're off on both counts, KM. Bread and circuses, not lions and christians, and Roman religion was much more than a bastardization of Greek religion. What the lay person knows is simply the state cult. The private worship was much more like what we see in Shinto if anything.

Oh truly. And gladiatorial fights were actually nothing more than charity events, I presume.
It certainly was a bastardisation of the greek religion, as the romans themselves proclaimed to be descendants of greeks, although the greeks still regarded the romans(latins) as below them on the greek-barbarian scale.
And just like the greeks, they made offerings to their gods in terms of sacrifices, used divination and oracles and everything that their little latin hearts desired.

Christianity, along with the shrinking of the empire had actually positive effects on the abolition of the gladiatorial events, as the newer emperors saw fit to abolish these pagan rituals...