religious dbwi

Prior to the abrahamic faiths' dominance in the western world, wild boars were tamed and domesticated, being bred for food and their skins. However, abrahamic faiths like Judaism, Christianity, Islam did not allow the consumption of such because they're unclean and don't chew cud. Now before you...

I'm sure just about everybody knows about the "Big Four" Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam. Of the four, Gnosticism was probably the one that came closest to fading into obscurity. What if it had? How might history have been altered if Gnosticism had fallen from...

Some funny things happened to Dionysus after the end of Mycenaean Greece. It seems like during the Greek Dark Ages, worship of him fell out of favor among the mainstream population. You might believe things would've gotten better for him in Classical Greece, but his worship was more or less...

Even as Manichaeism suffered persecution elsewhere in the world, it found a safe haven in China. So the religion managed to survive - even thrive - in China. To this day, China has the one of the populations of Manichaeans, though Manichaeism was never a majority religion. However, this was by...

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...