In the OTL, there have been a few people who claimed to be prophets or messiahs of God and who managed to have major religions formed around them. Christ and Muhammad and Joseph Smith, and so on. My question is what if that went even further?
Back in Christ's time, for example, there were multitudes of people claiming to be a prophet or the Jewish Messiah. So what if people claiming to be prophets or the messiah got more prominent, and the world was balkanized even further among religions, with someone in France worshipping a different prophet or messiah than the people in Italy, and Italy and France worshipping a different guy than Germany, and so on?
Back in Christ's time, for example, there were multitudes of people claiming to be a prophet or the Jewish Messiah. So what if people claiming to be prophets or the messiah got more prominent, and the world was balkanized even further among religions, with someone in France worshipping a different prophet or messiah than the people in Italy, and Italy and France worshipping a different guy than Germany, and so on?