AHC:Fundamentalist Christian nation (POD after 1800)

Calbin

Banned
A Juche church would be very, very "unique" to say the least. DPRK's stance on religion itself seems pretty weird (see OTL Christian denominations from Protestants to Catholics to Orthodoxy in DPRK, or how they use the more indigenous Cheondoist religion). I can see mass Christianisation of North Korea being cautiously appreciated by many Protestants (as evidence of God working a miracle), but then soon enough being seen for what it is (a Kim dynasty power play). I can't imagine DPRK Protestantism will be anything but superficially close to other Protestant denominations. They might get some other Protestants to preach a Juche-sort of message at times (mostly in East Asia, but maybe some naive pastors in the US), which if any mainline denomination in the US is seen as being remotely sympathetic toward, will be damaging to say the least. Overall it would be a good way to strengthen the Juche ideology and even export it.
North Korea attacking South Korea for having a catholic president would be very entertaining and very 17th century
 
Challenge. With a POD after 1800, have a nation whose religion is primarily Christianity (Anything from Copts to Mormons to a Successful Taiping Rebelion) where a person in 2018 who publicly converts from the nation's branch of Christianity to Islam is at risk of legal prosecution or death to the degree equivalent to OTL 2018 Iran or Saudi Arabia.

I picked 1800 since as far as I can tell, all of Europe had gotten more liberal than that by then. If much earlier, an unchanging Spain would fulfill the need.
Cristero' Mexico could fit. Maybe if the Cristeros' win the civil war in Mexico and form an anti-liberal and anti-secular Catholic clerical state ?
 
Hmm. I wonder what US Mexican relations would look like in that situation...
Depends. I didn't read up on US reactions in the conflict. In the one hand they had been reactionary and pro clerical. On the other hand revolutionary. I'm not sure on their ideological positions either. But they would have been Anti-Communist for sure. They fought an Anti-liberal clerical government after all. Dies not mean, that the US supports a radical Catholic Cristero' Mexico though. This Mexico might have sympathies for Catholic fascists in Portugal and in Spain in the decade to come.
 
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