samcster94
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This has been asked many times before, but my take is a bit different as it comes in poll form. Any POD in the Late Classical Period is allowed, but Christianity has to exist as a thing(even if not a state religion).
Egalabalus and Egalabal- whorship ?This has been asked many times before, but my take is a bit different as it comes in poll form. Any POD in the Late Classical Period is allowed, but Christianity has to exist as a thing(even if not a state religion).
It's quite possible that no alternative to Christianism would be the solution : not in the sense that Christianism had to triumph (before Constantine, it wasn't the case), but in the sense that nothing led as well to a cult of belief being raised as an imperial religion. I find likely that we might see the maintain of diverse popular beliefs and practices being more or less removed from the intellectual, more philosophically or mystically minded approach of Late Antiquity, with every one of aforementioned beliefs (EDIT : okay, maybe not Islam and Baltic paganism) and then some more participating to a Romanized/Hellenized pagan ensemble tied together by common social/cultural basis; altough @clem attlee would certainly be more knowledgeable on this.
Invictus always seemed easier than the others as it actually was in charge briefly.I doubt there be a clear single alternative to Christianity. You have the Oriental cults, Isis, Magna Mater, the Eleusinian mysteries, Sol Invictus, Neo-Platonism and Stoicism right along ealry Christianity. And let's be honest, OTL Christianity rise to power is almost ASB, only happening thanks to a very long string of lucky between the Crisis of the Third Century and Christian Emperors taking power in the IV century. (Outside of Julian.) Even by the time of Theodosius, not even half the Empire was 'Christian'. (And most of the time was Christian only in name, only using it for political and economical reasons.)
It is in fact easy, or at least very possible if done right, to knock Christianity off it high house. With that, you can see the Empire being divided and share by various faiths. (Neoplatonic Jupiter, the Isis Cult, Sol Invictus, Serapis.)
I feel like my original post was interpreted as a joke, but I believe that if Europe remained pagan, Islam would have swept through it (assuming its not butterflied away and the Roman or Byzantine Empire lasts long enough). Pagan traditions have difficulty withstanding the onslaught of zealous converts enticed with rewards in paradise.Islam?
I feel like my original post was interpreted as a joke, but I believe that if Europe remained pagan, Islam would have swept through it (assuming its not butterflied away and the Roman or Byzantine Empire lasts long enough). Pagan traditions have difficulty withstanding the onslaught of zealous converts enticed with rewards in paradise.