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Originally Posted by WilliamBlue Welcome aboard PsiCop, I for one consider myself rather weak when it comes Christianities history and I am looking forward to reading your posts! | Yeah, I still don't understand how Christianity overtook European polytheism and why I didn't grow up kneeling at the altar of Athena and her priestesses--however kinky that sounds  |
A lot of it had to do with accident of history. Had Emperor Julian the Apostate survived his campaign in Persia and returned to build the new church of Theurgy he'd started, and made it the "state religion" of Rome (as he appears to have contemplated doing, once he'd undermined Christianity sufficiently), things might have turned out very differently.