My Inner!Ragnar is totally ready to die at that point so he can be with Athelstan; but I supposed Athelstan isn't going to have any of that, neither in canon nor in Milliways when we get to that point, so Ragnar will just have to deal with it and go on living as a Christian. In the very few cases that Athelstan does put his foot down about something, Ragnar simply has to go along with it.-