730 - The Man Who Would Be King (5/8/23)
Chapo Trap House
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Ferdinand Habsburg and the Catholic Empire
The Catholics, they had some easy dubs in the early rounds of the playoffs against the Cathars and the Albigensians. Once they got out of their bubble season, as the great man said, you had a chance to be a cop and you blew it. The moment has passed you by. That's a good point that you guys make in the mini series. Like regardless of the theological disputes between Catholicism and Protestantism, it's just like check the record,. Who makes the weather? Pretty much anything that could be attributed to a quote, active God during the era goes to the side of the Protestants. It's uncanny.
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