At that, Phryne laughed in quiet amusement. "You'd be better off asking my companion, Dot." Although Dot would probably only tell him about Catholicism. "I'm hardly the religious type. In fact, most of our religions would damn me to hell, I expect, but never mind that."
She gestured idly with one hand as though dismissing the subject. "Perhaps a good half of the world believes in some permutation of one God, and their religions are descended one from another. The Jews came first, then a messiah was believed to have been born by some of them, and not others. Those that believed became Christians. Some centuries later, another prophet arose and others accepted him. They became Mohammedans. Then there are the other faiths, Buddhism, Confucianism, and dozens of tribal religions. I honestly don't know much about them, but I haven't run into any practitioners of those faiths here."
Re: Alcuin (and then Jack)
She gestured idly with one hand as though dismissing the subject. "Perhaps a good half of the world believes in some permutation of one God, and their religions are descended one from another. The Jews came first, then a messiah was believed to have been born by some of them, and not others. Those that believed became Christians. Some centuries later, another prophet arose and others accepted him. They became Mohammedans. Then there are the other faiths, Buddhism, Confucianism, and dozens of tribal religions. I honestly don't know much about them, but I haven't run into any practitioners of those faiths here."