In this timeline, Rome was destroyed by Gauls in 387 BC. As a result, the Parthians control the Levant and Egypt. Christianity is butterflied away because:
1. Jesus was killed by the Romans
2. Centuries of oppression of Jews by Greeks and Romans led to Jews looking for a messiah. The Parthians were tolerant towards the Jews, so it would not be a messianic religion.
3. Christianity takes elements from various religious practices in the Roman Empire, including but not limited to ritualized dining, the imperial cult (Christians say Christ is king for a reason), Constantine’s solidifying of Christian doctrine, Latin and Greek as liturgical languages, Christmas being celebrated on the same day as a holiday dedicated to Sol Invictus, and the generation of saints, which evolved from Greek pagan hero cults.
4. Due to the POD being 387 BC and the butterfly effect, there is very little change that Jesus or Paul the Apostle are born.
5. Due to the Parthians’ religious tolerance, there would not be a fixation on martyrdom.
What would a religion that, as Christianity would spread around the Roman Empire, spread around the Parthian Empire, look like?
1. Jesus was killed by the Romans
2. Centuries of oppression of Jews by Greeks and Romans led to Jews looking for a messiah. The Parthians were tolerant towards the Jews, so it would not be a messianic religion.
3. Christianity takes elements from various religious practices in the Roman Empire, including but not limited to ritualized dining, the imperial cult (Christians say Christ is king for a reason), Constantine’s solidifying of Christian doctrine, Latin and Greek as liturgical languages, Christmas being celebrated on the same day as a holiday dedicated to Sol Invictus, and the generation of saints, which evolved from Greek pagan hero cults.
4. Due to the POD being 387 BC and the butterfly effect, there is very little change that Jesus or Paul the Apostle are born.
5. Due to the Parthians’ religious tolerance, there would not be a fixation on martyrdom.
What would a religion that, as Christianity would spread around the Roman Empire, spread around the Parthian Empire, look like?