Were other European religions better than Christianity?

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To answer your first question, simply because "christian" emperors removed the gladiatorial combats due to their "pagan" nature is probably not the best leg to stand on-unless you want to say that Hitler was right when he declared Jews to be the enemy ...

As for your last contention, have you noticed how similar those themes are to modern day motion pictures? I don't watch Clash of the Titans because I am pagan-nor do all christians avoid them because they are such.

Well, I think that this was a major contribution, just like the Israelites, who had stopped showing their children down Moloch's burning belly, after being commanded not to(in unison with the commandment regarding idolarity) by their prophet Moses.
And I really fail to see how you godwin'ed this, even though it wasn't really necessary.

And yes, I did. However at those times, they were associated with the old Roman belief, and since christians were too, at one point, sent to their deaths at the arenas...It certainly must have influenced the emperor's descision to abolish them. And the empire wasn't exactly having it's golden age, and the games were expensive aswell, which was another reason to abolish them...