Why did barbarians convert to Christianity?
I think that a group of barbarious warfaring seminomads like the Germanic tribes of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd century AD would be doing anything but converting to some radical Jewish sect like Christianity. I recall however, the works of Paul and it seems outright that Christianity two thousand years ago was very militant (a warfaring messiah) and anit-Roman (this messiah would wage war against the Romans).
It seems as though these tribes had all the reason in the world to convert. According to their superstitions, a practicing worship of anti-Roman militant hysteria would give them great power to defeat Romans in various eastern and western territories.
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