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Seriously, increased Catholic influence=/=increased repression. Early Protestant sects were anti-establishment, not socially (or even economically, since Protestantism was often used to push greater capitalism) liberal. People just conflate these things because of the slew of recent movements...

All right, I need to ask this now. How can you claim to be more correct in your interpretation than the people who actually compiled the Bible in the first place? Numerous noted Catholic saints were present at the councils that decided the composition of the New Testament, almost certainly...

Well of course religion has very little to do with the overall success of a nation, I don't mean to imply otherwise, but at the time of Henry VIII I don't think anyone would have predicted the British Empire or the American superpower as possible futures for the Anglosphere, and England really...

Sorry, his post (or at least that line of it) just sounded so much like an unsupported pro-Protestant opinion (since the implication that one side is right is inherently un-provable and thus hogwash from a historical perspective) that I couldn't help myself. Protestants make up a minority of...

Yeesh, sounds like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the reformation this morning:rolleyes:. Protestantism wasn't a simple result of people gaining knowledge, it was a result of people gaining a certain amount of knowledge, and any more or any less would have produced a different result...

First, there was almost certainly going to be a reformation of some kind with or without Luther, but without him there is a very real chance that it will be an internal fat trimming measure rather than a revolution (really, reformation is a terrible term for this. When your idea of dialogue is...

I have hate for him, but not on the Angelos level (I don't hate Venice or the Papacy though, they were looking out for their own interests just like Rome was). He was pretty terrible, but his terribleness was mostly in the realm of playing politics in a way that was ultimately detrimental to the...

That's just it, none of it can be attributed to her. Not the cultural flourishing, not the empire, and not the stability. The cultural flourishing was going on all over Europe at the time, as a result of economic growth, which was itself brought about by forces far beyond Elizabeth's (or...

Okay, I have to ask, what the hell did Elizabeth I do to get all this hero worship beyond having a cult of personality? Fact of the matter is that her defense against the Spanish deserved to fail on its own merits (weather being her guardian angel apparently), and was brought on by her blatantly...

The Teutons have been gradually reorienting themselves westward for decades ITTL, and under Conrad they've been largely repurposed towards fighting Charlotteanism. Ironically, the rise of a new heresy in Northern Europe has given the Order a new lease on life after they lost their purpose during...

Good to be back:). The HRE and it's satellite states are currently in process of setting up the lines that will define the region's modern nations, and while I don't want to give too much away, one should have a rough image of what central Europe is going to look like by the end of Leopold's...

No, he flat out did not introduce anything that could be considered persecution of pagans, and your source actually confirms this, stating that actual persecution didn't begin until Theodosius and Valens (although it does make some ridiculous unsourced assertions about how exclusivist religions...

I couldn't ignore the recent outburst of hope for this TL's continuation, so I decided to go to work on it. Not too sure about how frequent I can be with updates in the coming months, but rest assured that the TL isn't dead until I say it is (even if I'm sometimes unwilling to admit that I've...

I remember being PMed about this;). Glad it's finally coming to fruition, and rather nicely I might add. As much fun as the internal politics of the empire are, with this PoD I'm actually far more interested in their future relationship with Anatolia, given that the Beyliks are still disunited...

Realistically, Sweden appears to have been in a position were a strong ruler could have taken them either way, and it was rather dumb luck that found Gustav I opposing the pope. Even then, the transition did falter during the Dacke War, wherein southern Sweden rebelled in favor of the Catholic...

Fair enough. What about a war that gets localized to Eastern Europe by stronger French resistance? Basically anything to limit the scope of the war to 1-2 theaters rather than the whole world, and have it end without any unconditional surrender scenarios.

Not sure if this has been done to death already, but I was wondering if, following the Nazis' rise to power in Germany, there was any chance of averting WWII, by either having more conciliatory allied powers (not sure if there was anything they could give that could make Hitler stop, but the...

Apologies for the month of unexplained hiatus. A combination of school starting and my computer being awful caused it. As of this week the latter problem at least has been fixed (for the moment at least) so I hope to have another update pretty soon. In the meantime asking questions and posting...

Portugal suffered greatly from bad luck and inexperienced leadership, and unfortunately things need to get worse before they can get better. 1. Inca are more or less as OTL thus far, and no one has yet made contact with them. As for their survival, I've always said they had a better chance...

I think one might have a chance if a country tried to have an English style alt-reformation, as in, having a king who likes Catholic doctrine but not being subordinate to the pope in religious matters. Autocephalous churches are a big thing in Orthodoxy, and in recent years some Anglicans have...