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  1. What if Russia didn't take Outer Manchuria and Haishenwai/Vladivostock?

    What happens to the lands of OTL's Kamchatka Krai and Magadan Oblast in this scenario? Do they remain in Russian hands?

  2. Luther never expelled by Catholic Church

    It's not going to happen without completely recreating Luther. He believed the papacy was the Kingdom of the Antichrist.

  3. where to believe in

    Fair warning: If you are a conspiracy theorist, you're not likely to find support here.

  4. AHQ: Has there even been a religion or culture that started off monotheistic and became polytheistic?

    The earliest Christian texts depict Satan as a fallen angel, a created being. Given his defeat by Michael, he's not even at the top of the angel power rankings. This tradition likely arose in the late Second Temple period and predates Christianity.

  5. AHQ: Has there even been a religion or culture that started off monotheistic and became polytheistic?

    If you mean Trinitarianism is polytheism, yes you are very wrong.

  6. WI: Julian the Apostate succeeds in his Persian expedition

    He would have been sorely disappointed.

  7. All American Orthodoxy: What if Joseph Smith discovered a Coptic Septuagint?

    Revelation. A timeline based on the Bible should use the correct names of the books. Your order is off. Job comes between the Psalms and Proverbs. The Twelve come between Sirach and Isaiah. If you want it to sound Orthodox, you should use the names the Orthodox do: • 1 Kingdoms [1 Samuel]...

  8. "Minor Alternate History" PODs

    If you are going to call the pineal gland in humans a third eye, you should also refer to the middle and inner ear as gills.

  9. "Minor Alternate History" PODs

    This is such a fundamental change that the evolution of human life is questionable at best. LaserDisc was invented in 1978, four years before the CD.

  10. AHC: Different Pelagian Controversy

    This is not likely. Declaring Augustine's writings against Pelagius heretical would call into question his writings against the Manicheans and, more importantly, the Donatists. It is possible that neither side really gains the upper hand. Initially the Eastern position was 'What are you guys...

  11. WI: Napoleon actually did have Dwarfism

    Are we talking about ahondroplasia? Height won't be the only issue. He'll have difficulty with the basics of military life.

  12. Historical changes if Gunpowder was never invented?

    Why isn't it invented? Does chemistry work differently in this timeline?

  13. WI: League Championship like in Football in the NBA?

    The NHL has its President's Cup, but its prestige is nothing compared to the Stanley Cup. This would take a major shift in the culture of the NBA to make a regular season title meaningful. Many teams are willing to accept lower seeds in the playoffs if it means their players are healthy and...

  14. AHC; 4th major Abrahamic religion

    How is Zoroastrianism an Abrahamic religion? This myth needs to die. There is no evidence for it. Start here https://historyforatheists.com/2016/12/the-great-myths-2-christmas-mithras-and-paganism/ for reference.

  15. WI: The State of Liberia

    When do you propose Liberia would achieve statehood? Given that its raison d'etre was to remove free Blacks from the US, why would it be incorporated into the US?

  16. What is your preferred name of the Philippines

  17. Decades of Darkness

    You had me at 'buzkashi'.

  18. WI: Henry II of France doesn't die in a jousting accident

    We'd never hear about Nostradamos.

  19. What if Jesus was a conqueror?

    He joins a long list of defeated would-be Jewish liberators. The best case is something along the lines of Simon bar Kokhba.

  20. The Great War is delayed by ten years?

    I tend to agree. I could see armed cars developing in a scout role. Maybe if there was a smaller war featuring trench warfare in the intervening 10 years that illustrated the need for tanks we could see them develop. Perhaps a colonial war?
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