Well aware of all that. But your statement indicates lack of respect of Christianity and freeing power it has had over the old pagan cultures.
Your statement :
“If you had been brought up and lived in Pompeii at the time, you would have understood it in a much deeper way than your ‘new religion’ has taught you to understand it now.”
I stand by my statement. We can never really escape from what we were born into and what was ingrained in us, and we will always understand that in ways that people not raised in it cannot.
You can’t interpret or understand what these people really thought and believed through your modern, Christian lens.