- 26 Apr 2013 19:52
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No Islam would not have become dominant because Islam is a religion that requires submissive behavior and europeans at the time still had a ton of individual fighting spirit in them, they would not have simply accepted the anti-freedom morals in Islam, they would have invented some other sort of religion instead of christianity, a religion that I am sure would have been very similar to christianity in terms of morals and general outlook on things like government for example.
Like Aristotles said during this era, "the middle eastern people are more submissive and tolerant of tyrants than us greeks", he was clearly thinking about how greeks and romans loved their individual freedom much more than the turks, egyptians, iraqis, Iranians etc etc..
Religions are man made things, they do not flourish in areas where people have a natural genetic hostility towards the behavior that said religion demands of its followers.
Political Interest wrote:If Christianity had not spread successfully in the Roman Empire and Constantine had not converted to Christianity in the fourth century is it possible that Islam could have spread in its place? Of course the pagan faiths of Europe would have remained but what is to say that in the absence of Christianity some rulers of Europe would not have accepted Islam as their religion? Rus looked to Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Judaism and Islam. If there was no Catholicism or Orthodoxy would they have possibly chosen Islam?
Many South East Asian rulers converted their kingdoms to Islam therefore one wonders if something similar could possibly have happened in Europe had Christianity not been present.
No Islam would not have become dominant because Islam is a religion that requires submissive behavior and europeans at the time still had a ton of individual fighting spirit in them, they would not have simply accepted the anti-freedom morals in Islam, they would have invented some other sort of religion instead of christianity, a religion that I am sure would have been very similar to christianity in terms of morals and general outlook on things like government for example.
Like Aristotles said during this era, "the middle eastern people are more submissive and tolerant of tyrants than us greeks", he was clearly thinking about how greeks and romans loved their individual freedom much more than the turks, egyptians, iraqis, Iranians etc etc..
Religions are man made things, they do not flourish in areas where people have a natural genetic hostility towards the behavior that said religion demands of its followers.