What I actually said Michael was that Christianity was imposed upon the old festivals (perhaps superimposed would have been a better choice of verb), I have no illusions about 'happy go-lucky pagans' I think life for the majority of people was probably 'nasty, brutish and short' whatever system they lived under.

I am also well aware of the Judaic, messianic origins of Christianity.

Perhaps you could remind me where in my 'rant' I described Christianity as 'evil'; I think I merely commented that not all actions in it's name necessarily represented the 'peaceful conversion' you described.