If Christianity hadn't been declared Rome's official religion, would the West be...

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Kagos

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...mostly atheist now? It seems that the Late Roman empire was becoming more and more atheist as people lost touch with the rustic old gods until Christianity came along and the Emperor converted. So, if that hadn't have happened, what would the Western world be like now?
"Pagan gods were very popular all across rome until christianity came."
Amongst the lowest classes, yes, but the educated citizens didn't seem to have paid them much mind (when they weren't ridiculing them, I mean).
 
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OldTimerToo

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We really don't know what went on in that "late Roman Empire". Anything we might suggest is going to be pure speculation, lacking any kind of substantive support. We simply lack very much of anything in the way of written information about the people.

As far as whether or not the people would have been atheist, even with Christianity, there were pockets of non-believers. Corinth (in Greece) was the center of intellectualism, which rejected religious thinking in favor of enlightened thinking as imagined by the mind of man.

Speculation doesn't mean much, unless you are writing fiction. Then the what if questions become crucial to creating the story.
 
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FosterDAD1

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God would reveal His truth as He did to Luther & others.When the Bible teachings were corrupted by the "church of Rome" joining with politics & God revealed Himself to many He would have done so even if no Church was present there.He is still in the soul saving business.
 
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PleaseInsertACoin

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Nah, it wasn't. Pagan gods were very popular all across rome until christianity came. It might even be fortunate, now we have to refute a much smaller variety of bullshit claims.
 
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ugly

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We would have cured cancer by 1200 ad, colonized the moon by 1300, and currently have out posts through the local stellar group.
 
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