Think of a world where for some reason christianity didn't take, somehow the zombie mesiah wasn't up to the challenge and thus some other religion became the predominant religion in occident like say the greek gods, the roman patheon, the nordic gods, etc...
Which one of the other religions would you like to have been as influential as christianity became?
Which are the ramifications for culture, science, law, everyday living would it have?
Do you believ the world would be better of with this religion as a mayor religion?
Please don't say none, yes I believe that no religion would be best but let's have fun nerdspeculating a bit.
Me?
I think the greek gods would have been a blast, praying to different gods according to the situation, no sexual hangups, I dont know enough to know if the world would be a more cruel place since I don't know how the felt about the poor and dienfranchised, but slavery probably would have been abolished later (or sooner if the religion became weaker sooner), I believe thay were more egalitarian with their women, science and art were not anathema to the gods so research would be lauded and not despised.
Imagine the architecture, instead of having all churches be dedicated to the same asshole, having shrines to each of the gods, having priests of all gods conviene to discuss what each god wants or needs (although I belive the greeks were less arrogant when pretending to know what their gods wanted)
I believe that sucha a culture would have been a bit more receptive to tha whole "the gods are not that important" since it wasn't a single all powerfull god that demanded sacrifices, and thus more conductive to athe ism or probably since the gods would meddle less in every day living, atheists would have less to "rebel" against and society would be more religious but less fanatical about it.
Please understand that I know next to nothing about Greek gods (and it shows, I know) the point is not so much to be accurate but to imagine new possibilities, however if you feel upt to it I would actually love to know more about these gods.
Ok, your turn.
Best regards
Ed.
Which one of the other religions would you like to have been as influential as christianity became?
Which are the ramifications for culture, science, law, everyday living would it have?
Do you believ the world would be better of with this religion as a mayor religion?
Please don't say none, yes I believe that no religion would be best but let's have fun nerdspeculating a bit.
Me?
I think the greek gods would have been a blast, praying to different gods according to the situation, no sexual hangups, I dont know enough to know if the world would be a more cruel place since I don't know how the felt about the poor and dienfranchised, but slavery probably would have been abolished later (or sooner if the religion became weaker sooner), I believe thay were more egalitarian with their women, science and art were not anathema to the gods so research would be lauded and not despised.
Imagine the architecture, instead of having all churches be dedicated to the same asshole, having shrines to each of the gods, having priests of all gods conviene to discuss what each god wants or needs (although I belive the greeks were less arrogant when pretending to know what their gods wanted)
I believe that sucha a culture would have been a bit more receptive to tha whole "the gods are not that important" since it wasn't a single all powerfull god that demanded sacrifices, and thus more conductive to athe ism or probably since the gods would meddle less in every day living, atheists would have less to "rebel" against and society would be more religious but less fanatical about it.
Please understand that I know next to nothing about Greek gods (and it shows, I know) the point is not so much to be accurate but to imagine new possibilities, however if you feel upt to it I would actually love to know more about these gods.
Ok, your turn.
Best regards
Ed.
