What if Rome did not convert to Christianity?

>>1602399
We would all be better off.

>What would be glory, and glory on top of glory?

>>1602399
We would be in space by now . . .

A basic income would be guaranteed to everybody and we could live a full neet lifestyle

Gee where would we be if we didn't adopt the religion of a camel jockey warlord that heard voices in his head that told him to cut his dick and sacrifice his son (Abraham)?

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We would be worshipping Isis or Mithras.

>>1602399
They'd still have fallen and things would have progressed mostly the same way.

Religion is given far too much credit for shaping history. Societal trends influence religion more than the other way around. A society in the grip of its final decadence will find a faith that celebrates weakness, whether by adopting a new cult or changing its own religion to fit the times.

>>1602399

We're getting into butterfly effect scenarios and nobody has any idea.

>>1602442
Many Romans did, in addition to the imperial cult or sol invictus or whatever. Syncretion wasn't a bad word, it was the name of the game.

>>1602399
We would be all citizens of the Pan-Galactic Roman Empire.

>>1602443

This.

Honestly, Romans adopted Christianity BECAUSE things were getting shitty, not the other way around.

Christianity sure helped get your mind out of the constant economic and social decay and shrinking borders and rising violence and misery.

It told you you were loved, it told you there were rules that mattered even when the law didn't, even when there was no democracy or a stable, benevolent ruler, that evil was supposed to happen and you would be rewarded for being a champ and putting up with it, it told you love, bread and being poor was the righteous path, that love and kisses was all you needed-

it was a fucking breakthrough.

>>1602399
>No islam
>Judaism stay irrelevant and people don't care about it

The world would be a better place.

>>1602399
The Roman empire would have collapsed more rapidly due to not having a common bond other than being roman n sheeit

>>1602399
The only way for that to happen is for Christianity to never have existed at all and even then someone would probably have just invented another religion or repurposed an old one into more-or-less the same thing.

>>1602693
>As the happiness of a future life is the great object of religion, we may hear without surprise or scandal, that the introduction, or at least the abuse of Christianity had some influence on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of the military spirit were buried in the cloister; a large portion of the public and private wealth were consecrated to the specious demands of charity and the soldiers’ pay was lavished on the useless multitudes of both sexes who could only plead the merits of abstinence and chastity. Faith, zeal, curiosity and the more earthly passions of malice and ambition kindled the flames of theological discord; the church, and even the state, were distracted by religious factions; whose conflicts were sometimes bloody and always implacable; the attention of the emperors were distracted from the camp to the synod; the Roman world was oppressed by a new species of tyranny; and the persecuted sects became the secret enemies of their country.

>>1603492
t. Gibbon

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>>1602399

No Church to preserve Roman culture. We would be having a harder time piecing together everything. Also Christianity would have spread differently, and Islam would not have existed. Maybe something better would have taken its place. Maybe something worse. Couldn't know for sure.

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>>1604690
>No Church to preserve Roman culture
This meme again

>>1602399
Christianity would've never taken off as it did.

>>1602399
God would have punished us and 10 billion more would be in hell. Just kidding there is no God.

>>1602399

It would convert to Mithraism or some other Oriental cult and the history would go on more or less the same.

Original Roman and Greek religion was dying long before Constantine.