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. 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. 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 it’s just as bad as the way Christian’s treated their enemies historically. The “fixed pie” idea of morality can’t be applied when comparing pre and post Christian Europe.