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The Reformation happened quite a few centuries after the period we're discussing here. It's virtually impossible to realistically argue that it somehow represents a resurgence of actual Arianism. Rather, various strains within the Reformation espoused doctrines that were akin to those the Arians...

The problem is that Arianism isn't like early Christianity (an underdog on the rise) in this equation, but like the old paganism when it was already in its death throes: declining everywhere, across the board. By the time of Grimoald, it wasn't even just 'declining', but rather 'all but...

Grimoald and his son Garibald were a clear exception. Both their predecessors and their successors were Chalcedonians, and their realm was already one with a firm Chalcedonian majority by the time they ruled. The Arian heresy, as an actual force, was well and truly dead by then. Nor were these...

I'm not implying equivalence, of course. Just a link in the chain of causality.

Rousseau was the main inspiration for Robespierre and his ilk. No Rousseau means no Jacobin terror. Could prevent the entire revolution, even, but if it doesn't, we see that constitutional monarchy becomes the likely result. Which means: no room for the extremists of OTL to rise to prominence...

Yeah. This is the guy who fathered an illegitimate child, didn't take responibility for it, then stole the child from the mother, and dumped the child in orphanage. And then wrote about about child-rearing. If I knew absolutely nothing else about the man, these facts alone would tell me enough.

The thread has been derailed by talk about dicks. I will put things back on track by supporting @Lord Sovereign in the proposal of killing one of the biggest dicks of all time. Jean-Jacques Rousseau must die.