[ WP ] Christianity dies out in the 4th century CE . What does western culture look like in the 19th century CE ?

`` Christos, Christos, I scratch my head... ha, that would be at the beginning of the Roman empire, as I learned in school at some point.'' 
 
 The weird little old man looked at me from below with two penetrating beady eyes. `` The gods are a lie! You really believe that there's a bunch of fancy bearded characters up there in the skies watching you? Wake up!'' he insisted while shaking my shoulders. 
 
 `` But my lord, everybody is entitles to believe and give cult to the god it prefers, wether be Zeus, Baal or Coyolxauhqui. You seem to be a very close minded person. Mind you, monotheism is a common belief among some Persian or Caananites, but...'' 
 
 `` Abandon your sins! Look at the sky!'' 
 
 I rose my head upon the fog-filled skies of the city, where some zeppelin seemed to make its way like a fish in the muddy abysses. 
 
 `` there's nothing up there, m'lord'' 
 
 `` That's the point! Our God; ahem, *God*, is invisible'', I was surprised of his weird use of the word as a proper noun. 
 
 I did n't understood at first. `` You mean that your god takes the form of a zeppelin?'' 
 
 `` No, no no!'' his face reddened like a plum. `` God ca n't be seen, he's everywhere. He watches us and can do everything. He sees you sinning and judges you'' he boasted. 
 
 `` If he is everywhere, does this mean that if I point out at something I will accidentally put my index up his arse?'' I chuckled. Now he looked really pissed off by my remark, but somehow he was also determined to convince me and did n't took much offense of it. 
 
 `` Do not laugh about the Lord, my boy'' he warned me with a shaking index. `` He love his creations and is merciful, but he also can take revenge. Once, he flooded the entire world!'' 
 
 I considered for a time this weird line about love, before trying to counter his argument, as any well trained platonicist would do: `` But our scientists showed a few decades ago that big animals lived in the seas and earths before we existed'' I said `` Aristotles was wrong. Animals and plants change over millennia like wax under a candle.'' 
 
 `` Does n't matter! What is a scientist to a prophet! Here'' he put a book in my hand. `` Read this. It is our book. It is called the `` new testament''. 
 
 I leafed the ancient greek content while scratching my head again. `` The testament of *what*? Should n't I need the old first?'' 
 
 He chuckled. He probably heard that a thousand times before. `` You just need to hear about the *good news*''. The *evangelion*. *Halleluia! * 
 
 Ha, this is to be expected. As any cult, they had their own esoteric mumble jumble they only understood between themselves. Does n't matter, I'm a history buff and I enjoy collecting weird items and curio from past times. I thanked the thick bearded old man clothed like Diogenes and went away, thanking myself for not being dumb enough to fall for these cults that cut you from your family and friends and takes all your money away.
