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(My First post! Thanks to Ian for activating my account!)

So yesterday i was browsing my old history textbooks, beacouse while talking with friends, the "protestant reform", of all things, came out as a subject (i know we're huge obscure history trivia geeks, that's beside the point :D) and this probably ASB scenario came to our minds: the spanish invincibile armada fails in conquering england (maybe something laughable like bad weather stops them:D) and protestantism and calvinism aren't stamped out. We figured out england would then become the new mistress of the oceans as opposed to spain, that would probably face economical collapse (that campaign was expensive!) and the Catholic Universal Church would probably don't end up reforming on it's own so much as in OTL (it would be fighting for it's own life and identity in face of protestantism, veer on the conservative side and probably lose the chance to start the Illuministic church reforms of late 18th century)...i know it's funny to think of a stuck up and conservative Church when just last month Cardinal Romani announced Her Sanctity's -OOC: not a typo- official approval of the Papal Confederacy's space program! So yeah in the spirit of good fun what do you think would have happened?
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