Based on Bill O'Reilly's comments about Christianity being a philosophy
I played Civ 4 which had seven religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confusianism, and Taoism) but unlike OTL, they appeared to be considerably more unified in the game...
So Challenge. Have one of the "World" Religions remain Unified so that a group of people numbering between 1 and 1000 can make decisions that will be religiously enforced. Having those 1000 be an elected body within the religion is fine, however a single religious leader (who can even be inherited) is fine as well.
Possible Scenarios include Christianity being *just* Roman Catholicism or a religion like the Unification Church, Latter Day Saints or Christian Scientists existing but not being under a religious umbrella...
Ideas?