A world without Christianity

[abaris]

I haven't got time nor the inclination to go into all the fallacies of the OP.

First, Europe declined with the rise of Christianity and the fall of the Roman empire. Dumbasses ruled who couldn't even be arsed or were too stupid to maintain the aqueducts. The fact that only the monks could write isn't a positive, it's a negative, since they didn't go out of their way to teach the people and they determined what was worthy of preserving. That's one of the reasons why the islamic world of the middle ages was far more advanced than the christian one. They preserved greek and roman knowledge and built on it. We wouldn't even have the number zero if it wasn't for them.

Second, there would have been no Islam if there had been no christianity. Islam is as much a derivate of the jewish cult as christianity is. Yet the jewish cult wouldn't have gained any importance under roman rule. And it certainly wouldn't have made it's way into Egypt and parts of the Arabic peninsula.