>People like to use pagans brutality towards their enemies compared to Christian’s relative mercy as proof that paganism is somehow more ethnocentric than Christianity
I have never heard that as a specific argument as to why paganism is ethnocentric; strawman argument
>In reality it’s more like Christian’s loved their own people and liked outsiders while pagans liked their own people and were ambivalent towards outsiders.
'And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?' Matthew 5:47 christ specifically exhorts the pagans for loving their own people and not foreigners
>If you look at the way pagans treated their own people (eugenics, pederasty, adultery, cheating and lying) in pursuit of the individual will to power
all of those are either specific to certain pagan cultures or were issues with christians as well. eugenics was only largely practiced by the spartans and, to some extent, the germanic tribes. pederasty was only tolerated by the greeks, viewed with ambivalent disdain by the romans, and shunned/punished by the barbarians. adultery is not encouraged by any pagan culture; even the 'degenerate' romans and greeks largely practiced monogamy. alexander the great alienated many of his greek subjects when he accepted a persian harem as a gift from the conquered persian king; as harems were unheard of to the greek peoples. cheating and lying were considered bad by literally every culture in the world except yours; the patriarch of the jewish race is literally named 'the usurper'. will to power is a modern idea not relevant to ancient paganism

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that doesnt change that Odin/Wotan/Woden was clearly the highest God of all their Gods and spirits, which is reported by Tacitus. you're avoiding the main issue which is that these are clearly just different names for one God, not regional tribal deities like you are trying to characterize them as. Saxneat or Yngvi would fit that category, but not Wotan, who was universal to all the Germanic tribes, and even to all the Indo-Europeans (although his rank was lesser amongst the Italics and Hellenics, in favor of Deus or Zeus)