More Pagan Religions in Europe: EA Style

Could any of these these from Empty America have occurred in OTL medieval Europe?

* Pagan Norse found a substantial colony in North America, thus their paganism survives as a practiced faith.

* Cathars either flee in substantial numbers to the Muslim world or even the New World, and their Abrahamic offshoot religion survives?

* Paganism in Lithuania somehow survives. Maybe even the way in EA- the Mongols go to Europe, and suddenly having sacred groves isn't a burnable offense anymore.
 

Philip

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* Pagan Norse found a substantial colony in North America, thus their paganism survives as a practiced faith.

If they plan to continue trade with the European Norse, they would have to convert.

* Cathars either flee in substantial numbers to the Muslim world or even the New World, and their Abrahamic offshoot religion survives?

The Cathars weren't pagan. Even so, I don't think they could survive. Catharism was a resistance theology. I don't think the Muslim world would be any more accepting of the political resistance that fed the popularity of the Cathars.

Paganism in Lithuania somehow survives. Maybe even the way in EA- the Mongols go to Europe, and suddenly having sacred groves isn't a burnable offense anymore.

If Lithuania remains pagan, it will become (even more) economically isolated from Christian Europe. It will not be able to compete.
 
If Lithuania remains pagan, it will become (even more) economically isolated from Christian Europe. It will not be able to compete.
Lithuania wasn't economically isolated from Christian Europe. Even trade with Teutonic knights was rather active.

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Catharism was a pseudo-Gnostic heresy, which is pagan enough in terms of medieval European standards. While admittedly much of the information I have on him comes from this post, they didn't seem like much of a resistance ideology to me, at least not violent resistance.
 
Could any of these these from Empty America have occurred in OTL medieval Europe?

* Pagan Norse found a substantial colony in North America, thus their paganism survives as a practiced faith.
That colony must be self-sufficient otherwise, they would face the same problems as Iceland.
* Cathars either flee in substantial numbers to the Muslim world or even the New World, and their Abrahamic offshoot religion survives?
This depends how you define "pagan". But it is possible that they actually survived. Some old Russian pre-raskol sects (e.g. molokani) maybe related to Cathars.
* Paganism in Lithuania somehow survives. Maybe even the way in EA- the Mongols go to Europe, and suddenly having sacred groves isn't a burnable offense anymore.
This depends on many factors (and mostly political). Lithuania long time balanced on the same edge of christinization.

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Philip

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Catharism was a pseudo-Gnostic heresy, which is pagan enough in terms of medieval European standards.

This is contradictory. Catharism was indeed considered a Christian heresy. It is not pagan unless you use pagan to mean 'not Christian, Jewish, or Muslim'. Even then the term pagan is not truly appropriate since Catharism was a Christian heresy.

While admittedly much of the information I have on him comes from this post, they didn't seem like much of a resistance ideology to me, at least not violent resistance.

Political and social resistance. The lower classes liked it as it opposed the hypocritical aspects of the Church of the time. Local nobles supported (or refused to fight) to assert their own authority and keep their peasants occupied.
 
manichean sects in generall are not christian and canot be considered an abrahamic religion as they are dualist and indeed se the abrahamic god as an evil demiurge

bosnian nobles that turned bogumil gave a lot of violent resistance as did most of the population, repeling repeated crusades, but how much the original bogumil comunity and their "perfects" had to do with it i dont know, i supose they acted the same as any other church in blessing the carnage and keeping god on the right side
 
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