[Gamecock]

Instead of sending missionaries to convert Catholics in Latin America, maybe you need to be sending missionaries to convert the nominal Protestants in Amsterdam and London.

Many of those who held to those doctrines of Grace were chased out by the Roman Catholic Church. The result is the United States.

[cheme]

"Many of those who held to those doctrines of Grace were chased out by the Roman Catholic Church. The result is the United States."

There is no basis for this blasphemy?

[Campion]

Many of those who held to those doctrines of Grace were chased out by the Roman Catholic Church.

Other than the Huguenots, about whom are you speaking?

The state churches in the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and the UK are all Protestant. Anyone who was "chased out" of those countries after about 1600 was "chased out" by professing Protestants. Catholicism was illegal in the UK until the 1820s, and illegal in, e.g., Sweden until the mid-1800's.

If you want to point out that most of the French Protestants came to America, that's true, but I wasn't talking about France. (Christianity, of any variety, has been in trouble in France since before the revolution.) I was talking about countries where the "reformation" triumphed, completely and totally.

There were plenty of recognizably Protestant Britons, Swedes, and Dutch in 1900. The didn't emigrate to the USA, and they weren't chased out by the bad old Catholics. Maybe you guys ought to try a little introspection for a change, and ask yourselves what happened.