Christianity survives but not established in Rome and around

My guess is that Christianity survived but never became the official Roman faith is that there would be different tendancies.

I picture a fundamentalist group like the Jehovah's witnesses and also a super progressive element resembling Friends?

What other religions would be significant in Europe?

Would they be polyteistic of single God Patriarchal?

Would Islam emerge?
 
There would be many different groups all practicing what they called Christianity. Theses devergent practices would survive because there would not be an orthodoxy. I thing that much of Europe would be like India. Most of the religions of Europe were similar and many of the gods were thought to be the same, just called on by different names.
Islam in my opinion would not have arisen, or if it had it would have been greatly different and probably not as explosive.
Some of the other religus trend in Rome would have continued, with the cult of Sol Invictus becoming the Imperial Cult, but not at the expense of everything else. Mithra would remain the choice of many in the military.
I can how ever see Rome codifying the whole mess to a certain extent. Have the Pontifex Maximus end up running something like the college of Cardnials.
 
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