> Put another way - that would seem to be an effect, not a cause.

Protestantism does seem to become the preferred variant of Christianity in areas of bottom-up power systems, such as the UK (at least wrt Magna Carta), which does make perfect sense given the Vatican being the ultimate in top-down thinking.

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svieira 3 days ago | parent [-]

Magna Carta (1200s) was issued 300 years before England defected from Catholicism (1500s), so I think we may be looking at the wrong thing as "the cause" here.

	▲	fidotron 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		No, that's my point. Generally speaking places that view things in a bottom up way became Protestant. The others stayed Catholic.