When the Byzantines encountered religious practices that were deeply tied to a locality, the church might ________
A. explain why paganism would lead believers to hell
B. eradicate all the local believers
C. absorb those practices into Christian practice
D. destroy the objects or shrines
E. report the pagans to the imperial authorities
Answer: C
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