True. Anyone with a multilingual background will find great qualities in any of his languages. I have yet to meet someone with a multilingual background who believes in the supremacy of one language.
For one I did not exclude or refer to isolated villages (and I'm not sure what evidence we have available there - maybe archeological?) but to the Christianisation of the empire as a whole as we see it documented. The antipagan edicts generally went unenforced, probably to no small degree due to a significant portion of pagans still being in the upper ranks of the state. I also hazily remember reading on Graeco-Roman paganism in the 6th century stating the same, though I cannot remember the details or the source to back it up.
It also instinctually corresponds to the different ways aristocracies and rural populations handle traditions. Rural populations generally adapted already existant traditions to the new faith, with not much change to their general lifestyle, as doctrines and dogmata weren't of any particular import there. An aristocratic dynasty however clings to weirdly specific things in addition to those dogmata. A senatorial family having gained its ascendance under pagan auspices would thus be quite unwilling to abandon its source of selfidentification in favour of some new fad from the lower classes. I partly speak from personal experience with regards to how my own family handled its history and traditions even though they have little relevance to what the world is today.
In that context pagan holdouts in isolated, hard to reach communities that therefore wasn't particularly relatd on what transpired in the empire as a whole is besides the point I was trying to make. Which is that not only did the Christianisation start in the lower classes, older families in the upper classes were generally the last ones partaking in the general workings of the empire to convert. It can be argued that conversion at a certain point became a wise career move, and this would certainly have played its part in the conversion of the remainder.
But if I'm wrong I'll happily change my opinion if you have something for me there.