To: freedomdefender
The America settlers fought the French in the French and Indian Wars for the same reason - to defend themselves against Catholic authoritarianism. Why did they fight the British?
65 posted on
04/26/2007 1:39:41 PM PDT by
Nihil Obstat
(Kyrie Eleison)
To: Nihil Obstat; Pyro7480
I’ll repeat: The politically incorrect truth is that free, stable, representative political institutions arose in and out of Protestant countries.
To: Nihil Obstat
Why did they fight the British?A significant contribution, at least in New England, was the granting of wider religious freedoms for those French Catholics by the French government in 1774.
68 posted on
04/26/2007 1:46:09 PM PDT by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: Nihil Obstat
A significant contribution, at least in New England, was the granting of wider religious freedoms for those French Catholics by the French government in 1774.Ooops, make that the British government.
69 posted on
04/26/2007 1:46:45 PM PDT by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
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