Plausiblity Check: Julian's Anti-Christian Policies Work?

Alright, so this is my first question here at AH.com and becasuse I've seen that people with no reasonable plausibility for their Alternate Scenarios get ripped to shreds, I've decided to not do a "What If" for my first question but a Plausibility Check.

So yes, the qustion is, could Emperor Julian's Anti-Christian Policies succeed at re-paganizing the Roman Empire? Or was Christiandom already too deep rooted? This would be assuming he doesn't die at Samarra, and lives to a reasonably old age. (He was only 32 when he died)
 
Might I ask about what you mean by paganism, as the term is directly related to Christianity as non-Christians? A bit like how Gentiles were to Jews, though racial issues were greater there. Anyways would he try driving through emperor worship again or to integrate all other dieties into the Greco-Roman pantheon? They connected Mercury to Odin, did they not? Maybe if you had the Temple of Peace were some of the treasures from the Temple of Jerusalem expanded to include the holy ideas from other parts of the world you would be able to do what they tried at that point, making Rome the religious center. Think of the Kabbah and how it used ot host dozens of statues. Also you may want to have the Romans do what a soothsayer reportedly did in the Bible, calling Jesus, Paul, Barnabus, Timothy and such Zeus Mercury and the like. Or pushing for the mystery cults and trying to say Jesus came out of Egyp figuratively. Though it would make no sense.
 
So yes, the qustion is, could Emperor Julian's Anti-Christian Policies succeed at re-paganizing the Roman Empire? Or was Christiandom already too deep rooted? This would be assuming he doesn't die at Samarra, and lives to a reasonably old age. (He was only 32 when he died)

No. It's not so much that Christianity was particuarly well rooted (though it was certainly becoming so in the East and North Africa), it's more that Julian was generally disliked by the majority of the populace for harassing them far more than any Christian Emperor did. Christian Emperors of the 360s generally let pagans get on with it- Julian insisted on upholding "proper" standards of the Old Religion, as he, and he alone saw it.
 
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