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[–] NarrativeControl ago 

Tacitus explains how Judeans converted Gentiles. Juvenal and Epictetus talk about conversions meaning repudiation of one's traditions. It was Constantine who favored Christianity over the old Roman religions.

I don't think adopting a foreign religion can ever favor your culture and people. You'd have to distill its concepts to the point they are free from any culture and they become just abstract ideas, which is definitely not the case of Christianity in Europe.

You're right in the fact that they were submerged in depravity. Maybe Christianity was just the final nail in the coffin? Then again, I think it might've stood the chance had it tried to return to their ancestral roots. Weimar Germany was depraved as hell and it was able to return to sane standards, albeit only briefly.