United Muscovite Nations wrote:Support is a strong word, but Ammianus was highly critical of the pagan revivalists, saying they were too attached to superstition, while being a pagan himself, so that gives an idea of how non-seriously many Romans took pagan values.
Christianity, if anything, revitalized Rome; albeit in a different direction, than it previously had experienced. Its normal for Civilizations to adapt and change over time.