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The responses to Christianity amid the old religions of Europe that we meet in Patrick or Bede or Gregory of Tours are worth taking side by side with the Christian interaction with the primal religions of Africa . Secondly , it is an immense abatement from the worth of the old religions as means of elevating and improving human character , that it is nearly , if not quite impossible for them to produce their best moral effects , unless we suppose a certain torpidity , if not positive twist in the intellectual faculties . Even though the old religion of Ozteotl has been replaced by Roman Catholicism , many elements remain the same . Delve deep into the pagan past , find out whether the old religions were obsessed with sex , learn about modern followers of the faith , and discover how many traces of ancient paganism remain in 21st-century culture . The old religions also afforded many resources for consulting the Gods , and obtaining their express permission for what would otherwise have appeared a breach of their prerogative . The old philosophy , the old religion , was made in about equal parts of ignorance and egotism . The memorial sets forth a request that the old religion should be restored , and the Altar of Victory again erected in the Senate House , that the ancient customs might be observed . What does the old religion think about these people who left them ?