— It is a specific set of people who embody an “Anglo-Protestant spirit”
So he doesn’t like the Jews or the Catholics.
My Catholic 3X grandfather died on a field in Virginia, slain by the rebellious Democrats. Had an exceptionally Irish surname. Left behind a widow and two children.
Guess he doesn’t count.
I like all cars. I prefer the 2 door body style. This in no way means I hate the other styles.
It's not a question of "like." It's a question of truth.
I'm Catholic, and I agree the that U.S., its Revolution and Constitution and culture, emerged from Anglo-Protestant culture.
Had the colonies been mostly Jewish, or mostly Catholic, the history of this continent would have been very different.
There were many Jews and Catholics among the early patriots, even though the major ethos of the USA was engendered by Protestantism in the sense that freedom and individual liberty meant a rule of law for all, but "no kings or popes."
Some examples:
One of the major financiers of the Revolution was a Sephardic Jew, Haym Solomon, whose gravesite in Philadelphia is in the historic colonial-era Jewish cemetery on well-traveled Spruce street in Center City, near both the Thomas Jefferson Hospital and the historic Pennsylvania Hospital founded by Ben Franklin. Solomon also founded a Sephardic synagogue that still exists in Philly.
King George III granted Maryland to John Carroll, who governed and established the only Catholic colony among the thirteen. His family are historic in Maryland, with many sites named after the Carrolls. The first Catholic cathedral in the U.S. was built in Baltimore.
Also of note in nearby DC was Father Patrick Healy, who served as president of Georgetown University 1874 - 1882. His Irish-born father purchased his mother, a mixed white and African slave woman, in order to free her and marry her; they raised a Catholic family. You may recall seeing the famous Healy Hall named after Father Healy on Georgetown's campus; it was pictured in the film The Exorcist.
Haym Solomon, a Jew, kept the revolution alive. He fund raised and loaned his own money to help Washington win the battle at Yorktown.
He’s probably referring to Calvinists who didn’t accept the divine right of earthly kings. They also believed in individual liberty, small government, and that man derived his rights from God not government. One of the early Calvinist Presbyterians in Scotland told the king to his face that he was “God’s silly vassal on earth.” The king promptly threw him in prison. They also revered education because they believed citizens should be able to read the Bible without any priest controlling their access to it or their salvation.
That’s the Anglo-Protestant spirit that inspired early Protestant Americans and their ideas are the underpinnings of this country’s constitution and its determination to separate itself from English rule. Where else did those ideas come from?