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Although Protestantism arose in Europe to break with the liturgy, dogmas and traditions from Roman Catholicism during 16th century, admittedly it didn't take much of a progressist approach on society in a whole. Antisemitism, antiislamism, witch burnings, the pitiful position and role of women in society, human sexuality, Biblical criticism, laicism/secularity were topics that found little - if any - room to be discussed at the time and still met large disapproval. Luther himself was an ardent antisemitic, and John Knox for instance wrote a very mysoginistic book criticizing harshly the power of female rulers.

How many (and which) PODs would it take to make the 16th century Protestantism a highly progressist/libertarian movement promoting the rupture of traditions - inside and outside the Christian sphere - in order to bring Europe to an earlier outset of what would IOTL be 18th century's Enlightenment?
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