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You'd have to smash Turkey, Iran and Syria simultaneously!

Well if Judaism is polytheistic, wouldn't Christianity and Islam be influenced by that too? More likely, it'd be a big enough butterfly that the other two religions would not exist, certainly it'd be vastly different than in OTL.

And now I see a future in this TL where Bruce Willis stars in a movie as President Nasser :biggrin: :winkytongue:

In this scenario, I can see the British eradicating the Malay royal families, which would weaken any so-called Malay identity. However, the whole "introduce more Christianity" thing just doesn't sound like the British style. Maybe if Malaya was colonized by the Spanish, who crack down harshly on...

More city-states. We all get to be Singapore or the Vatican!

Well that depends on the British and their needs. If I recall, the Chinese came here mostly due to mining, right? So if the British brought in more miners, you'd probably get a greater ethnic Chinese population in Malaya (which is the peninsular, I dunno about the situation in Borneo) than in...

A Chinese dominated government even though they are a minority population? Well....if the communists won, maybe. Then we'd be on the communist side of the Cold War, that'd be interesting. Though I wonder how Singapore, being more of a capitalist sort, would react to this situation. Then again...

The fight between Kenobi and Vader was the way it was not just due to Guiness' age, but also due to the technology of the lightsaber FX at the time. Sure, Mifune might be more agile/energetic but the nature of the lightsaber will make the fight as slow/cumbersome as it was OTL. Wonder how...

In honor of this thread, I'll be breaking my fast today with a KFC Dinner Plate! :closedeyesmile:

I read somewhere that Sean "Walking spoiler" Bean (yeah, the one who got the 006/Alec role) was one of the alternate choices for Bond in 'Goldeneye'. Wonder how that would have impacted his "Sean Bean always dies" reputation, and if he got the Bond role, would he still be cast as Boromir in...

Oh wow that would have been...well I dunno. My only enjoyment of that film is Lang's over-the-top portrayal of Stonewall, I wonder if Crowe could even come close to that scenery chewing glory. I saw a vid of that screen test. He was not bad, but I'm glad Boyd got the role. Similarly, I can't...

I remember reading Christian Bale was supposedly linked with that role, but maybe he's already too old at that time (trivia: Bale starred with the actress who played Shmi Skywalker in a TV movie about the Virgin Mary, where Bale played Jesus). I wonder if Bale's career would have suffered if he...

Muhammad as a Christian saint. He doesn't start a new religion (technically Muslims would say Islam is not "new" but you know what I mean!), no disagreement with regards to the Trinity, Christians seen an true believers instead of just "people of the book". This means no two competing Abrahamaic...

I read somewhere (Antonia Fraser's book maybe?) that Cromwell was one of the leaders who would support Prince Henry as the new King. I've always wondered how this would turn up, if I'm not mistaken Henry grew up as a staunch Protestant, nothing at all like his brother James. Then again, he died...

This actually sounds interesting. If you solved your computer troubles, would love to see you expand more on these ideas!

Thanks for the clarification on Arianism, much appreciated. Still, like I said if the POD is a stronger Arianism in Arabia, perhaps Muhammad would be more influenced by Arianism (whereas in OTL, it seems Muhammad is influenced by Unitarian (sorta) Christians and Jews, hence Islam's non-Trinity...

I sometimes wonder if a stronger and wider Arian Christianity might have butterflied away the rise of Islam. Islam actually has some elements with Arianism though IIRC Arianism still believes in the Trinity (feel free to correct me). Heck, maybe Muhammad would have been seen as an Arian "saint"...

Octavian Caesar sparing the life of Ptolemy Caesar, allows him to remain as Rome's client king in Egypt. Highly unlikely, yes, but it'd be an interesting POD!

Elizabeth tried, the Stuarts tried, Cromwell tried. Maybe you really do need a mighty ASB to convert Ireland to Anglicanism :biggrin:

You'd have to make Julian more sane than he is OTL. This is the guy whose idea of destroying Christianity is.....to rebuild the Jewish Temple??? Even pagans think he's nuts. A historian even called him the Ron Paul of Roman Emperors! :biggrin: