Why has Catholic Europe been so overshadowed by Protestant Europe

>>2599297
better work ethics and better government. Also age of enlightenment kicked in earlier.

>>2599297
France and Spain were by far more dominant than Britain and Germany prior to the 19th century.

17th century protestant based philosophy ( Hobbes and Locke) directly influenced modern scientific thought

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>>2599297
Racial, Economic, Intellectual and Cultural superiority.
Breaking from Rome is a manifestation of the aforementioned, not the cause.
Germanics BTFO Romeboos for the billionth time is all.

>That red
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What is this a map of?

>>2599297
You can get a lot accomplished if you don't have to report directly to the Church.

>>2599526
Probably a map of countries ruled by Protestants in the 16th-17th century. The red looks like the Ottoman Empire at its height.

>tfw Protestants always swallow Catholics in all of my EU4 games
I think only Spain ever manages to stay Catholic lol.

>>2599546
Enforce religious unity senpai or else the Protestant League will murder you

Because protestants are much more hard working and white

>>2599526
Orthodox?

>>2599312
>France and Spain were by far more dominant than Britain and Germany prior to the 19th century.

Not to mention, the richest parts of Germany are Catholic.

>>2599297
They can help the fact that they were exposed to the true path

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Stay strong and defiant, Catholic man. Without you... there is no Christian Church!

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>>2599613
Catholic Hitler ensured that didnt he?

>>2599297

At the end, 2017, "protestant" countries are mainly atheist.
Their few believers are converting to Catholicism or Orthodoxy.

>Overshadowed.

Its admirable how you can attract retards so easily with a shit thread like this

>>2599709
>too smart for christianity
>somehow a bad thing

>Protestant ethics and capitalism
WE WUZZ' MAX WEBER AND SHITT !!!!
BS
North Europe : Peasants learning to read (YOU MUST READ THE BIBLE!) becoming low salary obedient workforce like nowaday China and slowly increasing wealth
South Europe : high illiteracy level until the 19th century and loving revolutions against their "masters" and yet still being in the G20

>>2599740
Looking at Sweden, seems like it is.

>>2599297
This map is horribly inaccurate.

>>2599297
>Rennaissance Italy, Spain, France
>overshadowed

>>2599780
Seems pretty accurate for turn of the 17th century