Why was native European religion so unpopular and uninfluential...

Why was native European religion so unpopular and uninfluential? The whole continent largely converted to Christianity right away and apart from some recent movements, the original pagan traditions have been non-existent.

because no one with a brain worships twigs

Christ loves you was more appealing than Skyfather
There was also some pretty effective actions by early missionaries. Everyone wanted to be Roman for a long while and Romans where Christian.
One of the biggest moments was probably Clovis converting, Franks started converting and they would dominate over Europe for the next centuries.

>>Why was native European religion so unpopular and uninfluential?
It wasn't either of those things, the christfags had to turn popular deities into saints for a reason.
>>The whole continent largely converted to Christianity right away
No it didn't. This is simply false, the conversions took time and effort both diplomatic and military.

>>and apart from some recent movements, the original pagan traditions have been non-existent.
Wrong. European folklore is heavily influenced by the original polytheist religions of europe. Also, define recent movements, there's at least one Asartru group in spain who got started in the 19th century.

The Romans outlawed the Druids. These religions were suppressed, they didn't just fade away.

The druids weren't widespread though, it was a Celtic religion and those didn't have the staying power of neither Germanic, Slavic or Baltic faiths.

Druids probably did some pretty nasty stuff since Romans were chill with different religions except when they sacrificed people or did nasty stuff.

The Celtic religion was the most widespread European faith.

And the Romans crushed it or it got romanized. It was outlawed because the druids practiced human sacrifice, at least that's what the Romans and Greeks said.
It was the largest religion in Western Europe, but neither Greeks, Germans, Latins or the other nations to the east were Celtic, I am not sure what the religion in Hispania was.
And as I said, it didn't have the staying power of faiths like the Baltic one that stuck around for a very long time.

And by the time Christianity was the main religion of the empire the Celtic lands were pretty romanized and already pretty Christian. Missionaries from Ireland did a lot of missionary work to Germanics, actually.

It was Roman Influence what did the most to undo Celtic religion, romanizing it, and the Christianizing it, making saints and figures of their figures.

>apart from some recent movements, the original pagan traditions have been non-existent.
Well, christmas, easter and halloween stuck around pretty well

wrong

Emperor Maurikius II complained in 600 a.d. that the populace was still largely pagan
John Zonaras mentioned pagans were still common in 1043 a.d.
Plethon was an open Greek nationalist and Hellenist who was put to death by the (((orthodox church)))

Europeans never converted willingly, they were always forced.

European religion developed in nomadic pastoralism and Hunter gatherer mindsets. Middle eeastern religion developed in stationary farming communities with strict hierarchies, and had the longest history under this paradigm. Which one do you think Europe would go with after adopting farming?

>converted to Christianity right away
no
it took a very, very long time

Indo-Europeans had strict hierarchy, if anything the feudal system was successor to their tri-partial society system.

Because Europeans are weak.

Desert arab religion is strong.

WE

Do people even know when to use this meme anymore?

They don't.

also Carnival, we are in Carnival now btw

Think of the Church as the first multinational corporation of the world. As a survivor from Roman times, it held a monopoly over a wide range of services invaluable to monarchs. Also muh Roman heritage. Everyone and their dog wanted to be the Romans.

Any archeological or written evidence to support the existance of that system? Or is it just a case of indo-european "researchers" calling any convergent similarity between cultures an IE thing?

While this is true in the West it isn't quite so true in Eastern Europe where the church was far less independent due to the importance of the Basisleus.

wasn't the Basileus also a religious head?

No we just worship dead kikes on wooden sticks

>right away

This. It took a long time to convert all of Europe, and many times local monasteries had to interweave local, pagan traditions within the context of Christianity to gain much support.

The Hebrews were nomadic pastoralists

Judaism is Zoroastrianism edited for jew supremacy.

Zoroastrianism was also developed by nomadic pastoralists

Yes, the Basileus (Emperor) also had a somewhat religious role, but their main role wasn't religious.

Paganism got subverted by deceitful abrahamic shills. (((They))) took advantage of their hosts' polytheist faith, introduced a new, swell roman God, made a lot of compromises and interwoven a shite ton of pagan elements, making the change to the monotheist, more (((progressive and multicultural))) mode gradual and, unless they had enough goy manpower to convert other by force, very drawn out. Look up Celtic Christianity in the British Isles and Norway (it existed there until the Black Death, goddamnit! That's quite a while), the polish soldiers bowing to the sun before praying in the battle of Grunwald in 1410 etc. etc. We simply got jewed out of our own faith. Better watch out now or they are going to take away your race too.