Was orthodoxy a mistake?! Imagine if Russians chosen Catholicism

>>2022185
>islamic Russians
And here I thought Russia can't get any shittier

>>2022185
Orthodoxy is heresy

>>2022185
Russia is a living meme. Orthodoxy, tried to go full commie when they were still an underdeveloped shithole, and is generally too fucking big.

Balkanization when?

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>>2022185
No surprise people think Catholicism and Islam are interchangeable.

>During the first decade of Vladimir's reign, pagan reaction set in. Perun was chosen as the supreme deity of the Slavic pantheon and his idol was placed on the hill by the royal palace. This revival of paganism was contemporaneous with similar attempts undertaken by Jarl Haakon in Norway and (possibly) Svein Forkbeard in Denmark. Although Vladimir seems to have gone further than both Scandinavian konungs (even human sacrifices were reported in Kiev), his religious reform failed. By the late 980s he had found it necessary to adopt monotheism from abroad.

>The Primary Chronicle reports that in the year 987, as the result of a consultation with his boyars, Vladimir sent envoys to study the religions of the various neighboring nations whose representatives had been urging him to embrace their respective faiths. The result is amusingly described in the following apocryphal anecdote. Of the Muslim Bulgarians of the Volga the envoys reported there is no gladness among them; only sorrow and a great stench, and that their religion was undesirable due to its taboo against alcoholic beverages and pork; supposedly, Vladimir said on that occasion: "Drinking is the joy of the Rus'."

>Russian sources also describe Vladimir consulting with Jewish envoys (who may or may not have been Khazars), and questioning them about their religion but ultimately rejecting it, saying that their loss of Jerusalem was evidence of their having been abandoned by God.

>Ultimately Vladimir settled on Christianity. In the gloomy churches of the Germans his emissaries saw no beauty; but at [[Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)}Hagia Sophia]], where the full festival ritual of the Byzantine Church was set in motion to impress them, they found their ideal: "We no longer knew whether we were in heaven or on earth," they reported, "nor such beauty, and we know not how to tell of it." If Vladimir was impressed by this account of his envoys, he was yet more so by political gains of the Byzantine alliance.

>>2022292
They are the only relgions which are still a thing.
Protestants are mostly atheist now and the same with the orthodoxs after communism.

>>2022391
Most Catholic Countries first world countries are about as religious as protestant first world countries.

>>2022394
Catholicism is strong as ever in Africa and that is what really matters.

>>2022390
>>2022390
Just imagine if he had sent them to it after they got TURKED.

But religion is literally a meme.

An infectious idea.

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No.

The problem was that it didn't spread beyond the slavs

>>2022185
Didn't the king of Russia almost choose Judaism or something like that?

>>2022523
Or the Greeks, or the Africans, or the Asians...

>>2022391
orthodoxy in balkan peninsula is also strong i am greek and we have at least a 70% who believes deeply and almost 85% who reports as christian.

>>2022185
Meh, Orthodoxy was the most logical choose for Rus in X century.

>>2022629
copts and nestorians aren't orthodox

>>2022185
Quite the opposite. Catholicism and Protestantism are a meme. Orthodoxy is the way to enlightenment.