christianity

What changes in History would need to come to pass so that in 2019, most European countries are at least as religious as the Southern States of the USA? For example, LGBT rights are rejected in favor of a Biblical interpretation of sexuality, and the duty men and women must fulfill, there is a...

So I was thinking of how Roman repression of Judaism and early christianity contrast with how most Persian empires are much more tolerant. Now I dont know much about parthian tolerance or attitude to Christianity but I assume they'd be better than rome. What if for whatever reason, when Jesus...

What if Evangelicalism (also known as Evangelical Christianity or Evangelical Protestantism) had never existed? How might things have been altered by its absence?

In many Christian communities around the world, Fire is seen as a negative symbol, associated with the Devil, Hell, and Perdition. However in Central European Catholicism, it is usually seen as positive, symbolising the warm family hearth, the Eternal Flame above the Tabernacle in the Church...

In Japanese RPG games and some similarly themed Western video games (for example the JRPG "Chrono Trigger" or the Hungarian Manga RPG "Amnézia") the world presented before the player has a kind of syncretism of Medieval Japan and Medieval Europe, with some common Modern elements also added in...

Miguel Serveto, AKA Michael Servetus, was a Spanish-born medical physician, astronomer, and Christian theologian from the 16th century who is mostly famous for expressing a radical view of the Father-Son-Spirit trinity, in a way that could be considered a derivation of the Arianist doctrine from...

There is a minority view professed by some Christian denominations (Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists, possibly also Christadelphians and Unitarians, not sure about the last two) that if you die as an unrepetant sinner, God punishes you not by sending you to Hell, but by destroying...

With a PoD after 1380, how can we tinker enough with the events of the Western Schism (in which there were two, then briefly three, Popes competing for supremacy over the Catholic Church) so that there's a long-lasting shattering of the Catholic Church in Europe over regional, national, and...

Between conquests of Ferdinand III of Castille (1252), and the final fall of Granada (1491) there is almost 250 years. It seems that Christian Cingdoms had a lot of bad luck later, since there was always either some plague, civil war or some new arabic intervention to save the Emirate of...

What astonished many people at the time - and still astonishes today - is that after becoming the dominant religious group in the Roman Empire, the Christians as a whole never made any attempt to "turn the tables" and persecute and suppress other religions. Anytime something of the sort was...

While Christianity and Islam have made significant inroads in sub-Saharan Africa, the vast majority of sub-Saharan Africans have clung to their traditional beliefs. Of course, there's the argument that their faiths have changed significantly over the past two millennia, so they're not really...

Your challenge is to have some form of Arian Christianity survive to the present day.

What if the Kingdom of Kongo hadn't converted to Christianity? How might it affect things?

Your challenge is simple: have Jesus be a less common name among Christians and Muhammad be a more common name among Muslims.

Okay, the title's a big of an exaggeration. Completely getting rid of the profoundly anti-Semitic idea that all Jews "should" be held collectively responsible for the death of Jesus is sadly probably ASB. What I want you to do is make the "Christ-killer" canard never be more than a very fringe...

While Christianity in the early medieval Celtic world did have a number of distinct traditions and practices, the idea that Celtic Christianity (also known as Insular Christianity) ever formed a distinct religious organization is generally rejected by mainstream historians. This is due in large...

A common myth about the middle ages was that the old greek/roman knowledges were shunned because they were pagan and whatnot, and that instead everything was replaced with christian dogma. But in reality of course medieval Europe was a real romeaboo place and desperately tried to make...

One thing I can't help but find odd is that there are a lot of Christians named Jesus (or some variant of it), but hardly any Muslims named Muhammad. Is there a reason for that?

As the title says. Why did other parts of Europe give up their old religion, while Lithuania resisted Christianity for centuries? Some regions became Christian by conquest, while others, like e.g. Scandinavia, became Christian after their monarchs converted.

I suppose the easiest way to increase the numbers of adherents of Eastern Orthodoxy in the US is to somehow have numerous immigrants coming from Slavic nations, along with Greece and from the numerous Christians from the Middle East. Perhaps Russia is hit with a major famine, forcing numerous...