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>>24857220
We shall do no such thing, Augsburg and Westphalia ensured that Protestant liberty triumphed over papist tyranny by breaking the hold of the pope over politics
Or in other words
>The Holy See was very displeased at the settlement, with Pope Innocent X calling it "null, void, invalid, iniquitous, unjust, damnable, reprobate, inane, empty of meaning and effect for all time" in the papal brief Zelo Domus Dei
But nobody listened.
>1555: They peace of Augsburg enforces Protestant freedom over Papism
>1648: Calvanism is added as a allowed religion, popery is politically neutered. The Netherlands gain their independence.
>1688: Popery is chased from the British Isles once and for all.
>1815: Popish Spain need British troops for their liberation.
>1871: Protestant Prussia kicks the shit out of Popish France, Inadvertently allowing the dago's to invade Rome
>2017: The Catholic church will commemorate the 500 year anniversary of the reformation together with the Lutherans.
Protestantism always wins.