Scenarios about 'religion'
Religion encompasses organized systems of beliefs, practices, and ethics centered around spirituality, supernatural forces, or divine beings that have profoundly shaped human societies throughout history. Religious institutions have influenced political structures, cultural developments, and social norms while often serving as sources of both conflict and cohesion between civilizations. In alternate history scenarios, changes to religious developments can dramatically alter power structures, cultural evolution, and technological progress, creating divergent timelines with fundamentally different worldviews.
What If Creationism Was Never Challenged?
Exploring the alternate timeline where scientific theories like evolution never emerged to challenge religious explanations of human origins, profoundly shaping modern science, education, and cultural development.
What If The Enlightenment Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the intellectual and philosophical movement of the Enlightenment failed to take hold in Europe, profoundly altering the development of modern science, democracy, and human rights.
What If Epicureanism Became the Dominant Philosophy?
Exploring how Western intellectual, religious, and social development might have unfolded if Epicurean philosophy had become the dominant philosophical tradition rather than being marginalized by Stoicism, Neoplatonism, and Christianity.
What If Latin Never Became Europe's Lingua Franca?
Exploring how European intellectual, religious, and political development might have unfolded if Latin had not served as the common language of scholarship, religion, and diplomacy for over a millennium.
What If the Cult of Mithras Became Rome's Dominant Religion?
Exploring how Western civilization might have developed if Mithraism had outcompeted Christianity to become the Roman Empire's official religion, potentially creating an entirely different religious and cultural landscape.
What If Rome Embraced Greek Philosophy More Fully?
Exploring how Western intellectual history might have developed if Roman culture had more deeply integrated Greek philosophical traditions, potentially creating a different relationship between reason, religion, and political power.