So I see lots of atheists talking about how Europe would be better

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So I see lots of atheists talking about how Europe would be better off with Christianity, so here is how Europe would be had Christianity never taken off:

1. When the Germanic barbarians ransacked the western Roman Empire there would have been no Catholic Church to preserve any of the Roman knowledge. The reboot of western civilization would have taken much longer, and the only form of paganism to survive would be the Germanic variety because everything else got burned.

2. There would be no US, because there would have been no colonial period. Europe would be as crowded as China and India.

3. There would have been no constitutions based on the principle of negative liberty or natural rights, because those are Christian Concepts. Legal systems would be predicated on positive liberty, or just straight up rule of man.

4. The Germanic burial customs of burning bodies in boats and on altars next to rivers would have continued. Imagine, millions of bodies being burned along the Danube and Rhine rivers every year (see Ganges River).

5. Cities would be full of excrement and litter, because the idea of improving city life for everyone was a uniquely Christian movement in the west. Pagan aristocratic societies inevitably lend themselves toward caste structures, and the ruling classes aren't concerned with the lower classes because the gods ordained for them to be lower and it's their place. Also, the nice houses belonging to the aristocrats can still be nice even if the rest of the city is literally buried in crap