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If they just wouldn't have killed him he wouldn't have been able to come back and prove that he's holy. Then Christianity may not have come to existence, and we'd instead have the much cooler Roman gods.
Nah, they should have killed him in his avatar state. That way he couldn't have come back again.
But that means less piss potions!
You might be interested in Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg. It's a pretty quick read and it more or less explores that topic precisely.
he wouldn't have been able to come back and prove that he's holy.
Well, he probably didn't and another religion emerged regardless.
In Raised by Wolves it's a timeline without Christianity where it was Mithrism (a competing mystery religion around the time Christianity was starting) that succeeded to one day be at odds with atheism.
The first season is pretty good if you like the Idea of seeing what a SciFi scenario sans Christianity but a different pagan tradition instead might have looked like.
and we’d instead have the much cooler Roman gods.
Yeah, I've seen what ancient Greeaks and Romans prayed to - they are all shit (with the possible exception of Aphrodite/Venus).