I like what abaris said: the "what if" questions are pretty much useless. You can't prove what would have happened if you remove one piece of history.
Considering the mindset of the times, though . . . it's very possible that SOME religion would have taken hold and taken over without the xtians and Constantine. Every tribe had its own religion. Since the Romans did not force religion on most of their conquests until the xtian virus took hold, then something probably would have sprung up to do the job in its place.
Considering the mindset of the times, though . . . it's very possible that SOME religion would have taken hold and taken over without the xtians and Constantine. Every tribe had its own religion. Since the Romans did not force religion on most of their conquests until the xtian virus took hold, then something probably would have sprung up to do the job in its place.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein