Hellenistic religion's impact on culture
I have plenty of grounds to believe that Hellenistic religion would have MASSIVE butterflies on today's culture:
1: Hellenistic religion surviving= the LGBT movement is butterflied out of existence due to cultural redundancy, because the Ancient Greeks, and the Romans even more so, were very into bisexuality. The Hellenistic model of society apparently assumed that humans are bisexual by default rather than heterosexual. Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both well-known for loving people of both genders- Alexander had Hephastion and Roxane, Caesar had the King of Bithynia and the wives of several politicians.
2: Hellenistic religion surviving= increased naturist movement, because the Greeks exercised in the nude and the Romans bathed in public. Nudity would probably be mandatory in gyms and pools, and no OTL swimwear would exist, with the exception of swimming masks and buoyant swim-wings. Yoga pants and clothes for exercising would more than likely be butterflied out. In short- modesty would be butterflied out!
3: Hellenistic religion surviving= American Civil War more than likely butterflied out, unless there is a major Abolitionist movement ITTL somewhere in the period between 1200 and 1900. Slavery would not be based on race, and where there are slaves (and who is enslaved) could be completely different- POWs are the main source of chattels, followed by prison convicts, debtors, and minors enslaved by their parents. The old Turkish ruling that slaves have zero lineage (the scenario of a master having an affair with a female slave, then that slave having a son, who is by law born a freeman, and can legally purchase his own mother if she is still enslaved, could be possible) could be considered the norm. By the 21st century ITTL, the only slaves are prison convicts and 'concubines' (the definition of that word WILL include things too mature to talk about on AH.com), as the Industrial Revolution has practically done in forced labor.
4: Hellenistic religion surviving= Islam butterflied out, which means TTL Joatsimeon does not get banned from AH.com (Please don't ban me for saying this!). Christianity and Judaism also get butterflied into insignificance.
5: Hellenistic religion surviving= Celtic, Norse, Roman, Babylonian, and Carthaginian religions surviving into the present day. The Aesir compete with the Olympians for space in religious media, followers of Marduk and Morrigan participate in an auction for sacred ground, etc. Perhaps TTL's Neil Gaiman writes American Gods to include a Pantheon that originated from English colonists in New York or something like that. In short, paganism would have the run of the place, and Sikhism would be the one major monotheistic religion. Oddly enough, Wicca would be butterflied away, because there would have already been existing nature cults in which Howard Gardner could dance sky-clad with young women.
6: Hellenistic religion survives= Gothic architecture and OTL Baroque and Rococo periods more than likely butterflied out of existence. Classical and Neoclassical would be the main art styles. Modern fashion would probably either remain stagnant since the Regency period or look a lot more like something the Greeks or Romans would have recognized.
7: Hellenistic religion surviving= Bison would be more common, as the armies of whatever US-Equivalent controls the great plains would not try to deliberately drive bison extinct in order to control the Natives- priests and Priestesses of Artemis, Hecate, Gaea, Pan, Poseidon (because bison are close enough to cattle), and pretty much every other nature god and nature goddess would all be clamoring against wantonly killing an animal.
8: Hellenistic religion survives= ESRB and TV censorship likely gets butterflied away- the Greeks and Romans did not complain about nude statues displayed in public, and saying "Not in front of the kids!" would probably be butterflied away too.
9: Hellenistic religion survives= Paleontology becomes quasi-religious, as fossils are sacred to both nature gods and mineral gods. The Sauropod "Sauroposeidon" would have a different name, as do other scientific names that invoke the names of gods.
10: Hellenistic religion survives= butterflies away saying "gesundheit" every time you sneeze.