Would they worship a chair?

[Anomalocaris]

If it was the Persians rather than the romans who ruled Palestine, Jesus might have been executed by Scaphism instead of crucifixion.    In this case Christians today would worship a pile of shit with blow flys on them rather than the cross.

A) Scaphism was Greek propoganda.  There are no records of it ever being used.  B)  If Yeshua (assuming he lived) was judicially killed it would have been by stoning or hanging.  There was no reason for Rome to interfere in the internal minor religious squabbling in a client kingdom.

There is definitely record of it being used.  It so happens the only record is Greek, which makes the record suspect, but that is not the same as there being no record, or that the record must be false.