Challenge: A Non Abraham America

Specifically, make sure those who first colonize the area that would become the United States aren't part of an Abraham religion. Also, Abraham religions must never become the dominant religion on the North American continent(majority of people in the USA are Christian, being 75% of the populace.)
 
The first colonists came from Siberia before Abraham was born. However, there are several possibilities for ways to make a United States that wasn't dominated by Abrahamic religions. James IX is writing a promising thread about Chinese people settling America. I'd like to see a timeline about Polynesians settling the west coast, but I don't know if they had the means or the inclination to settle an already-settled continent.
Also, you could just kill off Abraham when he was little, or prevent the Roman Empire from going Christian. Or a plausible way to prevent European colonization is to use plagues to keep Europe from getting big.
 

Alkahest

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One way of achieving this with a relatively late POD would be to make a larger Vinland colony a refuge for Northern European pagans. A GURPS setting called Midgard, from Alternate Earths 2, had a similar scenario. (It also had a powerful Yanomami Caliphate and Viking pirates with katana. Pretty sweet, overall.)
 

Alkahest

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In Midgard, Norse paganism has evolved into "Thorism", a religion with Thor as the main/only "god" and the other deities of Norse paganism as "saints". It's a rather down to earth religion that focuses on Norse virtues like hospitality, courage, loyalty and honesty. Vinland is a very religiously tolerant and, well, libertarian country where several ethnicities and religions mix relatively peacefully. I would love to see someone do a plausibility check of the setting as it is, as said, pretty sweet.
 
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Perhaps early pagan colonies would evolve in similar directions to OTL's early Christian colonies.
"She's a Christian! Burn her!"
 
Peoples may be disapointed; non-abrahamic religions aren't always so better. Or worse.

Religion didn't always had anything to do with the dark events of Americas actually. But imperialism and mercantilism-colonialism.
 
I propose it rather in that it would serve as interesting counter balance to what would've otherwise become an Abraham religion dominated world.
 
I propose it rather in that it would serve as interesting counter balance to what would've otherwise become an Abraham religion dominated world.

Yeah, but remember that it may not change much actually.. 'Là où il y a de l'homme, il y a de l'hommerie', said a frenchmen...
 
A PoD with Christianity never forming as a major religion. Voila!

By example... An America settled by Neomithraists may be worse in some ways... Imagine if hostility rise between the neomithraists and natives...

This religion and hypothetical reformed form was quite pro-militaristic, and so... Vae Victis ideology, maybe...
 

DISSIDENT

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My tl on Chinese settlement goes into the dark sides alot. I have syphilis epidemics, uprisings by unwillingly deported peasants, corrupt Mandarin governors, natives taking revenge after smallpox, cholera and typhoid epidemics by burning Buddhist monasteries, outlaws fleeing into the wilderness and then when the Mongols take over mainland China, the outlaws become bandit warlords that found their own local dynasties that war with each other.
 
I read a fun but silly TL once, where Hwicce Saxons explored and settled Chesapeake Bay, so that when they were conquered by Wessex, a Saxon pagan Vinland with a sizeable population. That lead to metal-working, horsemanship, agriculture and other things diffusing from the Saxons into the Natives. When the Vikings reached Vinland, the two states worked together, drawing population from the surrounding natives and from Scandinavia(and any where else the Vikings got slaves). The secret of this is kept till t
 
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