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Are there any alternate histories about the west staying pagan?

submitted by noonefromnowhere to AskUpgoat 2.2 yearsMar 2, 2022 23:30:45 ago (+3/-1)     (AskUpgoat)

It would be interesting. Would the enlightenment have happened? What would America be like if we followed the Roman religion?


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[ - ] Master_Foo 3 points 2.2 yearsMar 3, 2022 00:20:40 ago (+3/-0)

Take a look at the Antikythera mechanism and then ask yourself how long it took for Non-Pagan Europeans to re-invent anything similar.
Then you'll realize Europe already had it's enlightenment. The Jews just retarded us for 1,000 years with their Jesus.

[ - ] SirNiggsalot 3 points 2.2 yearsMar 2, 2022 23:43:45 ago (+3/-0)

We wouldn't have fucking panhandlers at every traffic light , gas station or convenience store.
Street people would be periodically be rounded up to serve as fodder for the Arena.

[ - ] Paradoxical003 2 points 2.2 yearsMar 3, 2022 09:26:06 ago (+2/-0)

Here's a better story.

Jews never existed, or got killed off before they could destroy the first civilizations.

The empires of Mesopotamia and the Nile Crescent continue to flourish and expand.

Whites slowly begin to dominate the planet, all pagan faiths of Europe, Asia, and North Africa are united into a single religion, taking elements from various forms of religion that have occurred in their history Monotheistic/Henotheistic in that there's one Supreme God (for example, Aten, from which the name of Adam ("ruddy skin") was derived), Polytheistic in that there are many smaller gods below him who embody more specific categories of concepts, and are more interactive with the world of mortals, and animosity in that there are many more even smaller spirits who embody even more specific things within those categories, then there'd be what amounts to angels, who act as those servants of the gods who go between heaven and earth to perform various tasks at their behest, and ancestor worship, where the souls of the dead can act as a sort of personal God-type figure to their families, offering protection and wisdom, punishing those who go astray, and even acting as an advocate to higher ranks in the celestial beurocracy on behalf of the interests of their families.

There'd be reincarnation, as well as heaven and hell, which could be temporary (you can there between reincarnations), or permanent (reached a a final destination for those who rise high enough, or fall low enough, to break out of the cycle of rebirth, either to eternal reward, or eternal punishment), the soul might be divided into its parts, and these could be judged and rewarded/punished afer death, either individually (the good parts are rewarded and the evil ones punished) or as a whole (the sound is judged on aggregate, and all the parts follow each other) after death.

There'd be various hidden people, like Elves and Faeries in Celtic and Nordic mythology, there might be hidden worlds, like the Celtic otherworlds and the Nordic tree of worlds.

There could also be monsters and heroes, monsters who may have been born from some primordial source, or who were once mortals, but were somehow transformed into creatures of horror, and heroes who may be demigods, or merely great humans that could achieve amazing feats without the need to be more than human.