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But that happened centuries later. Using the Bible as justification of slavery happened during the age of discovery. Before that time the church was strongly againts slavery.

Remember that Paul was Roman and thus his views were heavily influence by the Roman culture. But at the same time women had been leaders in the early Christian congregations. The letters even mention women as deacons or even apostles. And remember that many Christian traditions were created...

It could be possible that a different monotheistic religion emerges in Arabia, but it may also be possible that this new religion is polytheistic or that Christianity becomes dominant in Arabia or ...

You are right. This happened not only in Africa but also in Southern America and even in Europe. But do not forget that Christians are living in India since the first century. And I have never read about a syncretic religion based on Christianity and Hinduism despite the centuries of living...

Couldn't it be that they accepted his teachings but not his absolute(?) leadership? I disagree. It would still be a conversion if he forced them to accept him as their leader. Why does it mean that it ignores the polytheistic tradition of Arabia? And you should remember that the Quran is an...

Why is it problematic? -------- Back to topic: It would be interesting if in one TL Tom Holland's theory about the origin of Islam is correct. But in this TL several events that according to this controversal theory led to the rise of Islam never happened or happened differently.

Did you watch it? And did not mean this documentary, I meant every sort of critical Islam studies which did not begin with the Islamic tradition is correct but tries to prove it and thus ask question which may be seen as blasphemous. That's right but it also meant that women could never get...

No, Sikhism is not and never was a syncretic religion. It always was an independent religion of its own with no links to Islam, Hinduism or any other Indian religious movement. Sikhism as a syncretic religions in a invention of both western orientalists and Brahmanic scholars.

I am sceptical but many things said in this documentary make sense. And BTW as long as an objective research on the origins of Islam is not possible not sane scholar can accept a theory which may anger the Muslim world. As long as the Quran (or the traditional interpretation of it) is seen as...

I agree, the differences between monotheistic Christianity and polytheistic Hinduism are too great to allow such.

I've stumbled across this British Channel4 documentary (I was looking for a completely different documentary). According to this Islam was created by Caliphe Muawiyah thirty years after Muhammad's death. If that is true then in order to have a world without Islam you just have to prevent the...

I don't think so. They saw themselves as Germans in the years after World War I but after the League of Nations forbade the unification of Austria and Germany, the Austrian began to develop an Austrian national consciousness which still existed during the German occupation and World War II...

I read it, but it is extremely unrealistic. And the Austrian would never agree to it.

A extremely satirical TL about the presidency of George W Bush, which in this TL was very short. Bush won the 2000 US Presidental election in a landslide but in the four months after his inauguration he managed to alienate all of the allies of the US, the general population of the US, the...

This TL started very interesting it soon became ridiculous with both Byzantium and Turkey becoming fascist. I know that Greece in OTL had become a dictatorship under Metaxa but it ended with the German invasion in 1941. My main problem is your version of World War II. Zhukov putting Stalin...

The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) was the third biggest political party in the post-World War II United States. Not even the Red Scare or the beginning Cold War could change this. But eventually the Big Red Machine had to fall. It began in the late 1970s when it was...

Sorry, but this title is very specific. Only fans of US baseball have chance to answer this. And it seems that you are the only one here...