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With a POD after 1900 what is the most realistic scenario in which Constantinople is either majority Orthodox or at least under the control of an Orthodox country/empire by 1950?

If the situation leading up to the 2015 general election was exactly the same apart from compulsory voting was introduced, what do you think the result would be?

In the late 60s and early 70s, many historians argue there was a Fourth Great Awakening in the US. While mainline Protestant church attendance fell significantly, Evangelicalism grew massively. This revival plowed onwards to the end of the century (in 1976 34% of Americans identified as...

Or rather, ...as opposed to the Bible which says that the primary benefits take place in the afterlife. "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and...

Well as someone who believes in Cessationism, I respectfully disagree. I'd be happy to discuss Spiritual Gifts with you further if you'd like to PM me.

Saying that the genocidal actions of one Pentecostal means that the world would be better if nobody was a Pentecostal is like saying 9/11 means the world would be better with no Islam or the actions of Stalin mean the world would be better with no atheism.

In the UK, while the number of people who identify themselves as 'Christian' on the census is declining, the number of true believing Evangelical Christians is in fact growing. The growth is quite Charismatic dominated however. For example, the number of Pentecostal churches in London has...

What? How is Christian Zionism a result of the Charismatic movement? There are plenty of non-Charismatic conservative evangelicals who are pro-Israel.

Pentecostalism began at the start of the 20th century and since then the movement has exploded on a global scale and the Charismatic movement has infiltrated other Evangelical denominations. Today one of the key dividing lines within Evangelical Christianity is between Conservative Evangelicals...

When was this??

I don't understand the title of this thread. The Third Temple has never been built (yet).

That was a joke. You said Adam Smith instead of Joseph Smith...

Perhaps you are unaware, but in addition to the Bible and the Book of Mormon, the LDS church also considers 'Doctrine & Covenants' and 'The Pearl of Great Price' to be scripture. Woah, I largely agree with classical liberalism, but I think that's going a bit far.

This is a cool story, but I have a hard time buying your depiction of Joseph Smith as being a really intelligent, reasonable, forward-thinking guy. At the time when he was assassinated his church was on the brink of falling apart due to his increasingly crazy antics which led to him alienating...

Well many, including me, would beg to differ there - as a strong case could be made that with its beliefs that humans will "become gods", along with many other things make it a separate religion to Christianity.

I don't see why people on this thread are assuming that a communist takeover of a country would "end" practice of that country's major religion. Catholicism seems pretty strong in Poland today to me, despite over 4 decades of communist rule - the same with Orthodoxy in Romania and Russia.

If you count Mormonism as being the fourth Abrahamic faith, then Judaism is still the smallest but only just.

So according to you, the part of the Western world which has the lowest belief in Darwinism would be the most embracing of the Darwinist idea of eugenics? :confused:

Is the following true or a load of rubbish: that in the 19th century when Japan was going about adopting many of the features of Western civilisation during the Meiji Restoration, it seriously considered importing Christianity and adopting it, as part of the package of Western civilisation...

An area of mainland Britain where, historically and continuing to the present day, conservative Evangelical Protestantism is the dominant religious tradition, a significant part of the culture and church attendance is significantly higher than the nation's average. Is this possible and if so...