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[–] Quaestorr ago 

pre-imported Judeo desert religion

That is indeed how I see the essential Christianity, but let us not forget that it was historically not perceived as such, and that for centuries it was a great inspiration to our ancestors. That, imho, is not to the credits of Christianity, but to the credits of our ancestors*! We've outgrown the religion; I realize that fact comes with its own problems, but pretending we still believe in the Hebrew YHWH is not a real solution. Paganism would require a lot of effort to get it to functioning properly, but I like how you see its relatively immature/weird imago as an advantage!

*(I like to compare European Christianity to a pearl: it is a beautiful gem, yet its essential core is an alien, potentially threatening irritant; the beautiful outer layers are in fact the result of the attacked organism's immune response.)