for me, it would be that crusader side wins the battle of Varna from 1444.
Winning the war would:
- stop ottoman expansion
- guarantee independence of balkan states
- give a chance for reconquest of Byzantine lands in places like Anatolia or Egypt
- secure the legitimacy of catholic church
- Poland would be even stronger as a strong catholic state in central europe which would have lasted for centuries.
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PointyStick2 on scored.co
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I'd buy a gun and kill Martin Luther. The idea of him being a reformer is basically a lie, he was very scrupulous and anxious and dreaded hell and ignored the counsel of his spiritual director telling him to not be so anxious. Luther ignored that and started to develop his "just believe" doctrine to get to a safe-ish "assurance of salvation" after his "tower experience".
Nowadays this "just believe" doctrine engulfs millions of liberal boomers. Going against corruption was basically only a sidequest, one of the few things for which he was lauded. Later on, his teaching led to the Anglican Revolution, a century later you had the 30 years war, Europe becoming more and more divided and destroying the image and unity of solid religion in Germany as "everyone may believe as he like".
The Bri'ish had multiple civil wars about democracy vs. monarchy and almost genocided the Irish in the process, Napoleon came in, weakened the political power of the Catholic Church even further, and then Communism, Darwinism and Materialism came in to basically reduce man to an animal and after WWII liberals infiltrated the Church from the inside. While the Nazis tried to save Europe from Communism, Hitlers ideology was mostly focused on material survival of the nation, not giving a nation an actual goal beyond survival (in difference to Franco / Mussolini).
On the ideological front, Luthers teaching later on were regurgitated by Hegel (who was a staunch Lutheran), except that Hegel merely applied Luthers views on divine sovereignty to history, saying that history improves itself through evolution / dialectic. Hegels view on history progressively "improving" then influenced Darwin on progressive biology on the Origin of Species. Darwin then laid the groundwork for modern atheism, but "without Hegel, no Darwin".
Ultimately the weakening of belief in Gods laws reduced religion to opinion, therefore strengthening Jewish thought. The reason people hate Jews is after all, not the physical genetics, but their behavior. To counter that, you have to have a philosophical counter-force for why this behavior is degenerate. But in terms of justification power, saying it's "well it's common sense for women to have children" is simply a lot weaker than "Deus Vult", "it is Gods will".
Nowadays this "just believe" doctrine engulfs millions of liberal boomers. Going against corruption was basically only a sidequest, one of the few things for which he was lauded. Later on, his teaching led to the Anglican Revolution, a century later you had the 30 years war, Europe becoming more and more divided and destroying the image and unity of solid religion in Germany as "everyone may believe as he like".
The Bri'ish had multiple civil wars about democracy vs. monarchy and almost genocided the Irish in the process, Napoleon came in, weakened the political power of the Catholic Church even further, and then Communism, Darwinism and Materialism came in to basically reduce man to an animal and after WWII liberals infiltrated the Church from the inside. While the Nazis tried to save Europe from Communism, Hitlers ideology was mostly focused on material survival of the nation, not giving a nation an actual goal beyond survival (in difference to Franco / Mussolini).
On the ideological front, Luthers teaching later on were regurgitated by Hegel (who was a staunch Lutheran), except that Hegel merely applied Luthers views on divine sovereignty to history, saying that history improves itself through evolution / dialectic. Hegels view on history progressively "improving" then influenced Darwin on progressive biology on the Origin of Species. Darwin then laid the groundwork for modern atheism, but "without Hegel, no Darwin".
Ultimately the weakening of belief in Gods laws reduced religion to opinion, therefore strengthening Jewish thought. The reason people hate Jews is after all, not the physical genetics, but their behavior. To counter that, you have to have a philosophical counter-force for why this behavior is degenerate. But in terms of justification power, saying it's "well it's common sense for women to have children" is simply a lot weaker than "Deus Vult", "it is Gods will".
So yeah, that guy would not leave the room alive.