The Church wanted to undermine and destroy the Pagan religions of the time. The so called 'pagans' were Mother-Nature worshipping people, who worshipped nature and the believed in the divinity of the female. They took part in sexual rituals, and the such. The Church, wanting to undermine this, went about murdering so-called 'witches', trying to portray women as evil; they adopted a hierachical system, with men becoming the more powerful; they portrayed their God as a male; they told the story of Adam who gave rise to Eve; they made sex a 'sin', instead of the divine, wonderful thing it was seen as; and many more.. all to undermine the so called 'pagan' religious of the time, and to gain control for themselves. THATS why i dislike the christian religion - theyre based from a history of conquest, deceipt, and blood-shed