Protestantism makes its greatest inroads in northern Germany, the further from Rome, because the closer you are to Rome, the easier it is for papal authorities to keep people in line and enforce orthodoxy.
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“the further away they are from rome the more attractive it turns out they find that lutheranism makes its greatest inroads in northern germany the further you are from rome the more likely the protestant reformation is to work”
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