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This post has all the trappings of a spectacular gotcha without any of the substance. You seem to have latched onto one phrase, "the faith of your fathers," and interpreted it in the most literal possible way as any religion held by any of one's ancestors. This enables you to score a formal "win" by pulling an Uno Reverse card. But, for all of your shared blood, the Anglo-Saxons might as well have lived on Mars for how much cultural, moral, or otherwise organic connection that you have (or could) with them. By contrast, the culture in which you now live and the moral concepts in which you were inculcated are, at their roots, Christian through and through. Christianity is the faith of your fathers in a much stronger sense than Celtic druidism or whatnot could ever be. Even the pathos that you invoke on behalf of the poor pagans forced (strongarmed!) by Christian kings into converting gets all of its bite from a uniquely Christian emphasis on freedom of faith. (And before you object that this is a modern innovation, read some pre-Constantinian theologians like Tertullian and look into the shitshow over the [post-Constantine] execution of Priscillian.) Likewise the sympathy for these put-upon underdogs "[wrestling] against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." ("Underdogs" who would probably have taken your pity as the highest insult.) If you are going to hold to the "faith of your fathers" in your chosen sense, then you should defend that without relying on tropes and attitudes that they would have found "alien and alienating."
I would also point out that it is highly dubious whether the violence visited upon outlying northern backwaters was remotely necessary "to get us to the point where you can claim that Christianity is the only banner worth mustering under." First, that this was in fact the way things went down doesn't mean they couldn't have easily gone another way had Christians remained pacifistic. Empires tend to like solving problems with violence even where inefficient. Second, Christianity had already conquered one of the largest, richest, most intellectually-vital polities the world had ever seen, and it did so more or less peacefully. Unless you have a grossly inflated conception of British power to resist cultural diffusion (pre-Christian Roman accounts do not paint a flattering picture), I doubt the ultimate result there would have been much different had leading Christians stuck to their initially peace-loving ways. (Compare the fantastic success of private Christian missionaries across the globe in the post-colonial era.) Finally, even granting the dubious supposition that these places would never have been converted peacefully, we have no good reason to believe that their un-Christianized versions would have reached the heights that their Christian versions did, instead of remaining the tribalistic minor powers that they had been to that point. So Christianity would most likely still have remained the only banner worth mustering under even if the Celts had never come to be mustered under it.
If the first generation of anglo-saxon Christians did something good by abandoning the faith of their fathers for a better faith, that takes the punch out of the accusation that Hoff is abandoning the faith of his recent ancestors, if he is doing so for something better.
Pre-christian rome involved in many ways tolerated worship of other gods, and was polytheist with varied practices. Christianity was, as noted above, harsh on worship of any other gods. I'm not sure it's uniquely christian, exactly? I'm not familiar with the general works of tertullian, but priscillian practiced a heretical form of christianity, as opposed to rejecting it. Religious freedom in an expansive modern sense came later as christianity transitioned towards religious tolerance, and universalism, and then agnosticism, and there being negative reactions to executing a heretic doesn't change that given he was executed.
Eh, rome itself achieved its size and trade without christianity, there's no reason to presume it's necessary.
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