
Hinge Points S2E1: Dog-gone-erland
Chapo Trap House
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What Happens to the Catholic Church in This World?
It's pretty clear you're not gonna get a Scottish enlightenment which is effectively the early liberalism providing the ideological gene of capitalism. But what happens to the Catholic church in this world? That's really interesting. Do you even get a Protestant Reformation or is this sort of land-based imperial space, it kind of just allows the Catholic church to continue indefinitely. What happens to the church? So do you not get the technology of Protestantism which is so crucial I think to capitalism's dominating Europe and eventually the world? Now I think you have a holy and unified Christendom because it was the growing pains of Europe that brought Protestants into existence.
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