>>20511286The non-meme answer is that there's always been a tension between the prohibition against violent conversion and the prohibition against suffering false religions, and when it came to the Jews different states fell on different sides of the argument. In Spain, where Jews had straight up opened city gates to the Muslims, they were eventually told to either convert or leave. In Eastern Europe, where they had less blatant hostility with the local population, they were just tolerated minorities in their own enclaves.
>what about pagans thoughThe vast majority of pagans converted peacefully when their kings and nobility converted, Goths for example were majority Christian by 390 AD when Rome was still around. Even nordics who are the biggest LARPagans of the 21st century were already building churches on their own initiative by the 800s.
The pagans that did force Christian hands usually did so by doing what pagans usually always end up doing, i.e. raping, pillaging, and human sacrifice.
