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IOTL, Paul the Apostle made Christianity palatable to the West. He was told by the Holy Spirit (or by a rationalization by the later Church Fathers, for the Atheists. to explain why he ignored the Sassanid Persian empire) to go to the West. Supposing God (or, again, Church history saying God told him) told him to turn east?

The challenge is to get a Christianity that is a product of Eastern civilization, and the West to have its original gods until at least the age of exploration. The basic scenario I want is that Christianity in India at least has an Asoka figure, though it could be as Hinduized as ever, while Stoicism's pantheistic God comes to have the same role in a future Europe as Brahman had in India when he displaced the original pantheon.

What happens? In this scenario, Christianity in the West becomes an Anatolian "ethnic" religion similar in a sense to Yezidism and Manichaeism as well. With a West that is more "Hindu" (in the sense of monotheism superimposed on old polytheism) and an East operating on what would be OTL Western culture, what changes?

Answers would be duly appreciated...;)
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