No Robots

The Romans had created an excellent social structure, but what they lacked was an adequate spiritual content with which to fill that structure. They suffered from chronic spiritual anomie, which they tried to fill with various novelties. Greek philosophy lacked the practical rootedness that the Roman temperament required. Judaism had some appeal for the Romans, but they remained estranged by its mysticism. Ultimately, the Romans imported Judaism's offshoot, Christianity, but modified it, suppressing its mystical core and remaking it as religious praxis: liturgy, rites, communitarianism. Ultimately, the effect was to make Christianity into a model of Rome: all structure and no content.

Elijah

I think there would have been some type of slave religion that became popular at some point if not for Christianity. Rome oppressed so many people in so many lands an ideology for the oppressed was bound to spring out at some point from somewhere. I don’t know if Jesus would be the name they championed but it would have been someone similar going against the ruling authority.

If it wasn’t for the people needing a savior then I think the natural religion that would have manifested would have been an Imperial cult of some type. I think that’s what the rulers of this planet would have preferred.

Reason

Imperial cult as in deification of the monarchy?

Elijah

Imperial cult

Christianity is supposed to be kind of the anti-Imperial cult.

traques

Bets on whats next? I'm all for the flying spaghetti monster.