How Can Europe Develop Religious Pluralism?

I agree with what most people have said here so far.
I´ll just ask one question, playing the advocatus diaboli:
Why would we want religious pluralism in Europe?
A shared cultural foundation facilitates political cooperation. Given the global nature of the challenges of our century, most prominently slowing down global warming, the common culture facilitating cooperation might be something rather positive, might it not?
 
Why would we want religious pluralism in Europe?
A shared cultural foundation facilitates political cooperation. Given the global nature of the challenges of our century, most prominently slowing down global warming, the common culture facilitating cooperation might be something rather positive, might it not?

Well, I may be mistaken, but old paganism also allowed a rather large degree of syncretism i.e in the first century A.D and forward we had : roman-greek, roman-persian, greek-egyptian, and at some point roman-greek-persian-egyptian-super-combo...

So, if I dare to say, it would be an element that bring people together rather than setting them apart.

If we're still talking about surviving polytheistic ancient religions. If the question is about part of Europe being non-christian (Muslim, Jewish, or other) then you're right, because again, abrahamic faiths tend to easily antagonize each other.
 
I agree with what most people have said here so far.
I´ll just ask one question, playing the advocatus diaboli:
Why would we want religious pluralism in Europe?
A shared cultural foundation facilitates political cooperation. Given the global nature of the challenges of our century, most prominently slowing down global warming, the common culture facilitating cooperation might be something rather positive, might it not?
Shared cultural foundation =/= religious hegemony per say.

China has remained a cultural landmark for several thousand years up to the modern day, longer than any other state or even international grouping which holds a comparable landmass.
Aside from regional local folk deities, it has also had a thousandfold sects of buddhism which are often heretical to eachother, Confucianism, Taoism, to some degree Mohism etc.
In short, religious pluralism itself isn't inherrantly a barrier to social cohesion.
 
Maybe if the Abrahamic religions develop in a different way, say they only worship one God/god but don't think "Hey maybe our God is the only god", things can work out for your ATL?
 
Well, I may be mistaken, but old paganism also allowed a rather large degree of syncretism i.e in the first century A.D and forward we had : roman-greek, roman-persian, greek-egyptian, and at some point roman-greek-persian-egyptian-super-combo...
I quite agree here - but at least if such a process achieves a synthesis comparable to the "Hindu synthesis", then we no longer really have "religious pluralism in Europe", at least not to a greater degree than the different brands of CHristianity we have today.
Shared cultural foundation =/= religious hegemony per say.
Again, I agree. But religion is one important dimension of culture. Of course, other dimensions can provide the shared cultural common ground, too, e.g. philosophy, language, political mores, socioeconomic structures. But that doesn`t mean that a shared religion doesn`t corroborate the common foundation.
I´m saying this as an atheist, who is totally glad that present-day Europe is no longer strictly dominated by churches and Christian "values" - I´m just throwing it in to see why exactly people seem to favour "religious plurality" over "religious unformity".
 
I quite agree here - but at least if such a process achieves a synthesis comparable to the "Hindu synthesis", then we no longer really have "religious pluralism in Europe", at least not to a greater degree than the different brands of CHristianity we have today.

I won't go as far as fusing everything together and make it the main credo, just that peoples would acknowledge that their neighbor's religion isn't very different than their own would be enough.

I´m saying this as an atheist, who is totally glad that present-day Europe is no longer strictly dominated by churches and Christian "values" - I´m just throwing it in to see why exactly people seem to favour "religious plurality" over "religious unformity".

I think -and this is subjective- that for most people "religious plurality" equals, or at least imply a certain degree of freedom of thinking or open-mindness and that's what make it appealing.
 
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