Ayup. I just don't percieve much pressure for emperors to convert to one faith in a society vastly dominated by others (including a cult of emperor worship, for that matter). What's such a drive for them, exactly? I mean obviously there are advantages, but why is it so obviously worth it?
This I don't think there's any way to answer. There is no obvious reason. Its possible, but even Constantine is supposedly doing it because of a special reason (a sign from Heaven), which is hardly the same as just joining with the norm.
Hey, I don't know what was in their heads. I know there were still a lot of them up to the end of the Western Empire. I know they lived in a time where such things moved more slowly. I know the pagans disproportionately lived on the opposite side of the empire and out of the cities, making Julian's potential impact less effective and less quickly heard of. I know they'd had their leadership decapitated - hampering any capacity to take advantage of Julian's brief reign.
Where do we see that (the leadership decapitation)? Looking for specifics, not arguing.
They seem to have been. As it was it's easily obscurred because Constantine came along and made it all a moot point. No amount of ideological reform among the German communists was going to fix their situation once the Nazis were in power.
Yeah. And while Constantine's reign alone may or may not have meant "the Christians were in power", things went that way after him, and he started it.
I'm not sure this is even a disagreement on details, except in the most nitpicking sense - just that having Christian successors (except for Julian the Short Reigned) meant that whatever influence he had was magnified and continued, so...
Yeah, bad situation for wrong footed or otherwise ill prepared pagans.
Ayup. That's about the size of it.
Sounds good then.