(November 13, 2014 at 7:14 am)DramaQueen Wrote: Why did the rulers convert? Would a rural African convert to Sikhism? I mean, where's their critical thinking
The conversion of the Frankish king, Clovis, may serve as an example. It was merely a political decision. He remained as big a bastard after as before....which was fine with the fucking church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_I
Quote:Yet Christianity did offer certain advantages to Clovis as he fought to distinguish his rule among many competing power centers in Western Europe. His conversion to the Roman Catholic form of Christianity served to set him apart from the other Germanic kings of his time, such as those of the Visigoths and the Vandals, who had converted from pagan beliefs to Arian Christianity. His embrace of the Roman Catholic faith may have also gained him the support of the Catholic Gallo-Roman aristocracy in his later campaign against the Visigoths, which drove them from southern Gaul in 507 and resulted in a great many of his people converting to Catholicism as well.[13]
Politics...as always.
