On: 'Christianity as default is gone': the rise of a n...

[yters]

How can you explain European Christianity with top down imposed rule if the Western Empire collapsed before the medieval ages? What is doing the imposing?

[icebraining → yters]

Many peoples converted to fall on the good graces of the eastern Roman empire and stop being trampled on so much. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Bulgaria

[dragonwriter → yters]

> How can you explain European Christianity with top down imposed rule if the Western Empire collapsed before the medieval ages?

Much of it by Francia, whose first King converted to Christianity in 496, and which rapidly became the dominant power in Western Europe.

[masonic → dragonwriter]

  Much of it by Francia, whose first King converted to Christianity in 496

... which is 20 years after the Western empire fell.