User blog:LurkerLordB/Religion in a world without Christianity

In a brief moment of bitterness over the destruction of the native Germanic and Celtic religions by Christianity, I wondered, if no such religion had arisen, and the Jewish beliefs stayed among that ethnicity, how would the religions of Europe have been? (assuming that history follows as similar as possible without it). Would the cult of Sol Invictus have supplanted the Greco-Roman religion, perhaps to the extent that Rome became semi-monotheist? Would the Germanic invaders, in addition to adopting variations of the Roman language, have adopted their god(s), or kept their own? Assuming that Islam wouldn't have formed without Christianity, would a pagan Arabic empire have arisen? Discuss. LurkerLordB (Talk) 21:37, April 22, 2012 (UTC)