If Judaism spread throughout Europe at the same era and rate Christianity did...?

[mSciencem]

Which do you think would've become the dominant religion?

 

[lizzy]

Uh I hate to say it but Jews are destined to be hated. Look at their history for crying out loud. They never get a break. Heck, even Jews seem to hate Jews for some reason.

 

[Jewish]

Judaism IS the dominant religion, heathen.

 

[GOD1333]

Christinaity....

Jews bleive only jews are humans and all non-jews are sub-human, cattle.

Christians with the help of John 3:16 want to "help" others by making them christians

 

[AMNeSia]

Religion doesn't exist, so that's it.

 

[NoChanceWithoutJesus]

Judaism is not evangelical.....it spread because the people where chased from their homelands there and had babies

 

[Orac]

Judaism DID spread throughout Europe in the same era and at the same rate - at least for a time.

Unfortunately Judaism doesn't make many converts and made itself a thorn in the side of the Roman Empire on numerous occasions (Emperor Hadrian is seen as something of a hero figure amongst Emperors, but ask a Jew for their opinion on him and you get a vastly different response!) and the Empire was never going to take it on-board.
Conversely Christianity stayed quiet and unobtrusive until it quirkily got picked up by Constantine as the new state religion, and that changed everything.

 

[kaganate]

It is impossible for it to spread at the same rate.

Judaism believes that experiences of God are tribal -- it takes for granted the notion that non-Jews can be righteous on their own cultural terms and therefore tries to disuade perspective converts instead of enticing them to join.

In the early middle ages there were a number of Jewish-ruled kingdoms (in Africa, Persia, eastern Euroe) -- and it all cases, contrary to Christian practice, they had a legal system which didn't just tolerate different religions but fully accomodated them.

That said, if the Empirial family had not accepted Christianity at the time of Constantine, or if the anti-Christian emperor Julian had not been assassinated, Christianity may not have become the dominant force that it did.

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Interestingly, if Julian had not been assassinated, the temple would have been rebuilt and Israel would have been re-instituted as a Jewish state.
This would have caused a ... re-constriction of the Jewish worldwide presence

Definitely a very different world -- but certainly not one where Judaism would have dominated.

 

[harpertara]

Jewish people don't proselytize, unlike Christians. So, Christianity still would have become the dominant religion. The Jews aren't interested in converting the whole world to their religion. The Christians were and are.