DBWI : Christian Rome instead of Persia

Dolan

Banned
Yes, this is basically what if Hazrat* Shapur II The Great never converted to Christianity during year 310 of the Messiah Era*, and in his place, a Roman Emperor does.

Will Christianity still spread East into India and China? Will Europe turned into a Christian majority continent instead of today's Roman Pantheon and Odinism? Will the West - South - East schism of Persian, Ethiopian, and Chinese rites of Christianity still occur or would it something else?

OOC :
Hazrat = Persian for Saint
Messiah Era = OTL Anno Domini, but since Anno Domini is Latin and this ATL Christianity is Persianized instead of Latinized
 
Will the West - South - East schism of Persian, Ethiopian, and Chinese rites of Christianity
Wasn't that schism brought about by how the Ethiopians were much "purer" in their form of Christianity while Persian and Chinese Christianity had lots of syncretism with Zoroastrianism and Buddhism/Daoism/Confucianism (in fact, it is considered China's "fourth school") respectively?
 

Dolan

Banned
Wasn't that schism brought about by how the Ethiopians were much "purer" in their form of Christianity while Persian and Chinese Christianity had lots of syncretism with Zoroastrianism and Buddhism/Daoism/Confucianism (in fact, it is considered China's "fourth school") respectively?
Yeah, would be there some equivalent Schism with Christianity being weighted to Europe instead of OTL Asia? Maybe Roman Christianity would adopt some aspects of Roman Pantheon, the Far North would syncretize more with Odinism, and leaving Ethiopian Church as the "pure" Church?

Yes the Chinese thought Jesus as the ultimate "tenth" reincarnation of Sakyamuni Buddha has been regarded as Heresy within Persian and Ethiopian Church, which is ironic because India proper mostly follows Persian Mazda Church. But at least their Bodidharma Christian Monks has the best Kung-Fu
 
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Dolan

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Whch claims Zoroaster was a prophet of the Judeo-Christian god and that Ahura Mazda and Ahriman are just Persian names for God and Satan respectively.
Which claimed that Zarathusra is son of Nahor, and thus Uncle of Abraham who thought him about the One True God. It did make sense somehow with all the parallels and similarities between The Old Testaments and The Avesta.

Of course, the exile Zoroastrian community at Dacia did not agree with the Christian interpretation and claimed Zarathusra being much older and the Jews somehow copying that during their historical exile, but yeah... That was obviously Roman propaganda.
 
Interesting. I wonder if the West was Christian, if it would have been more united and able to resist the invasion and conquest of the region by the Norse followers of Ragnar Odinson. As it was, the Saxon, Frankish and Gothic states were pretty decisively steamrolled by the Norse. Removing the Ragnarians alone is going to have a huge impact upon the history of the world. No Temple to the All-Father in Rome, for instance, or the Fryrite colonies in Mikleskógurland (OOC: North America). I wonder if the Western World would even still become so dominant in later centuries.
 
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