>Maxentius wins at the Milvian Bridge, Christianity gains the reputation of backing a usurper and the association induces Maxentius to renew the Diocletianic Persecution with fervour >No Constantine means no state shift to Christianity, despite additional failed attempts to ascend a Christian emperor>Christianity is destroyed throughout Rome, Germanic supremacy over Italy still achieved, ERE retains more land in the east, jewish diaspora never given special privileges>No Christian mobs to destroy Pagan literature and culture throughout the Empire meaning technological advancement isn't set back>Islamic Expansion is still more successful than not, but struggles against ERE>Hunnic and Arab invasions, and the lack of Christian universalism, foments a racial consciousness developing in Europe significantly sooner>Counter-invasions against Muslims ("Crusades") happen sooner and North Africa and the "Holy Land" are re-colonised>Hadrian's spirit rises and Abrahamists are mass culled across MENA>German-led European coalition invade proto-Russia and colonises Eurasia over the next centuries>Inter-continental colonialism starts centuries sooner>No attempts at mass conversion nor moral concerns for the wellbeing of natives; mass enslavement and extermination of all resistance occurs; separate but reasonable co-existence with collaborators>Atlantic Slave Trade is much larger and eventually constitutes the necessity of a racial caste system in the Americas>Abolitionism never arises due to no Christcuckery and any wannabe John Browns are lynched as race traitors>An ideological revolution akin to The Enlightenment, which secularised and radicalised Christianity, would likely further pan-Germanism, race science, militarism; at worst, sidelining, not replacing, the gods>Marxism never exists due to no jewry nor Christian ideological backing>Earth's White Supremacy permanent, Whites make up >70% of the global population>Sol System Germanised by 2200WCHB
>>18426882>>Maxentius wins at the Milvian Bridge, Christianity gains the reputation of backing a usurper and the association induces Maxentius to renew the Diocletianic Persecution with fervourKind of out of character, there's evidence Maxentius wasn't that hostile to christians and was even working with some in Rome. Not saying he was an ally but he wasn't Diocletian's ideological successor either. But even if he won, he would still have to march out eventually and conquer the rest of the empire from Licinius(a better general) and Maximinus Daia. And those guy are in the east. Technically they don't even need take Rome, just take Africa and starve Rome. But let's assume you are right, the butterfly effects kind of mean things like the rise of Islam, rise of racial conscious or even the trans Atlantic slave trade might not even happen. It would be weird if history plays out the same but minus Christianity and not veer into a direction we can't even predict. Like would Islam actually exist of Christianity was just an obscure religion Ethiopians and Armenians practice?
>>18426882>>18426946Fun fact: without christianity (platonic judaism) islam (arian christianity + arab paganism) never exists.Also, the pro-Maxentius christians were very chill with pagans, if Maxentous had won, christians would just become another sect of the Greco-Roman religion, based on an afterlife-comfort minor god.
>>18427041>the pro-Maxentius christians were very chill with pagans,Debunked; there were no pro-maxentius christians, and the so-called maxenentius Church wasn't made by Maxentius, he only stole the work of other as part of a political game that failed
>No Christian mobs to destroy Pagan literature and culture throughout the Empire meaning technological advancement isn't set backThe techonological advancment of the last 600 years of antiquity was already rather modest.
>>18426882Without Christianity Islam would never existMaybe the Arabs would convert to Zoroastrism eventually
>>18427041>christianity (platonic judaism)christianity predates judaism, retard. and it is aristotelian, not platonic. jeez
>>18426882Teenager fantasiesLegit one of the dumbest what if scenarios
>>18426946>there's evidence Maxentius wasn't that hostile to christians and was even working with some in RomeThat's probably because Pagans still ignorantly believed in theistic pluralism and that they could co-exist with Christians.
>>18426882Reminder that Greece and Italy were at their peak when they were predominantly pagan. After they converted to Christianity, they became shitholes that produced nothing useful culturally or intellectually, or at least nothing useful culturally or intellectually that was because of Christianity.>But what about the Renaissanc-ACKExcept the Renaissance was kickstarted by Gemistos Plethon, who was arguably the first neopagan. It was he who preserved certain classical texts that otherwise would have been lost, it was his lectures on Plato that inspired Renaissance-era thinkers to take an interest in antiquity.The Renaissance only happened the way it did because people took an interest in PAGAN texts. While many Renaissance-era thinkers might have been nominally “Christian,” their works were specifically inspired by PAGAN philosophies such as Neoplatonism and Hermeticism. Christianity itself played no role in any of this (especially when many of these thinkers like Giordano Bruno and Niccolò Machiavelli were literally accused of crypto-paganism).
>>18426882>>No Constantine means no state shift to Christianity, despite additional failed attempts to ascend a Christian emperor>>Christianity is destroyed throughout RomeThis is a leap of logic, as the many earlier efforts to destroy christianity through persecution did not destroy it.
>>18427687>>18427729It was the onset of Christianity that ended pagan traditions to begin with. Preserving a couple texts relating to larger traditions that you yourself are responsible for eradicating isn’t a service to paganism, it’s more like putting a bandaid on a stab wound that you yourself inflicted. Imagine if I burnt down your house, but went inside and grabbed the television before it got destroyed and handed it to you. Would you get on your knees and thank me, obviously not. Besides, it means nothing anyways since most lost texts such as Varro’s Antiquitates Rerum Humanarum et Divinarum, the Chaldean Oracles, Manetho’s Aegyptiaca, etc were intentionally discarded or destroyed because the full works weren’t deemed “useful” to Christians and many texts were literally scraped off their parchment so that monks could write sermons or prayer books over them. The texts we do have only survived because they were essential for teaching Greek and Latin grammar or rhetoric, not because Christians appreciated the content itself. Pagans had already been copying these texts for centuries and would have continued to do so without Christianity; it's foolish to suggest that Christianity was somehow necessary for their preservation (especially when the pagan institutions tasked with preserving them like Neoplatonist academies were literally shut down by Christians).
>>18428785Because they never happened. Most claims of Christian “persecution” under the Romans are heavily exaggerated. With the sole exception of Diocletian’s edicts, there was never an official sustained targeted persecution of Christians by the Imperial Roman government and what little persecution of Christians that did occur during that 300-year timespan was mostly localized, sporadic, and caused by local tensions rather than official decrees. Most stories of martyrdom are also pure fiction and many of these martyrs themselves never even existed.
