/lit/ - Literature

>>19798582
Actual /pol/, sure. I was responding to posts about what people in the early part of the 1st millennium would be doing if they had internet access. I imagine they would be divided about the new Jewish religion in the same way that /pol/ is divided over Islam, some of them rejecting it as foreign and some wanting White Sharia.
>>19798674
>Islamic-Western synthesis
This is something I have also thought about, given that a lot of people will probably resist what they see as invasion by a foreign religion. They might end up trying to reconcile it with their own culture, rather like the Persians did with Shia.
>>19798683
They conquered the last remains of the Roman Empire, not the fully developed Christendom of the Renaissance era and beyond.
>>19798919
Even if we take that to be true, we still have to explain why the Abrahamic religions have been the most successful at spreading monotheism. Platonic philosophy can very elegantly demonstrate that creation originates with a single God, yet the Hellenistic world continued with polytheistic practices. Why didn't the superior "non Jewish" culture follow up the natural conclusion of their philosophy?
>>19798925
Yes, that's a good point. They still experience a drop in birth rates after the first generation, however. Second generation migrants generally don't breed much more than the natives of the North unless they retain their ancestral culture and religion, resisting secular and liberal influences.