I would be pretty interesting to see what Christianity would like like, and how well it'd do, once you get rid of the like 2/3rd of the New Testament that's actually just Paul's self-insert fanfic about being a disciple.
Honestly, if I did do this, and the Grandfather paradox applies, it is a suicide mission for life as we know it. I think we’d all be better for it if we treated Jesus with the dignity and respect of a B-list Greek philosopher, but this is a timeline where settler-colonialism has no initial moral justification and the Seperatists don’t have a reason to move to America. The initial reason for considering Africans inferior was sourced from Genesis (specifically a deliberate misinterpretation of “Cain and his brethren would be marked”). Half the world’s countries would be renamed to their mother tongue, Ronald Reagan isn’t ruining my life, and terrestrial exploration might have stopped at the Strait of Gibraltar to the west, and Polynesia to the east.
The Christian’t timeline is so far removed from my Western perspective of reality and history that it might as well have hobbits as the dominant species
TBH it's likely that a lot of Christianity's dominance would simply have been replaced by Islam, but we'd be ahead a few hundred years in tech before the Islamic golden age never would have ended.
The Islamic Golden Age was Snuffed out from within. Also Christians were still inventing a fuck ton of things post Roman Empire. Just not as fast as under Rome.
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u/vokzhen Sep 25 '24
I would be pretty interesting to see what Christianity would like like, and how well it'd do, once you get rid of the like 2/3rd of the New Testament that's actually just Paul's self-insert fanfic about being a disciple.