Mexico is a special case, as the Church was under very serious persecution in Mexico in first half of 20c.
The United States has a good history of religious tolerance generally and has, no doubt distinctly Protestant character. It would be fair to attribute the past economic successes of the US to Protestantism among other factors. For that reason, taking a parochial view, one might say that the Protestant line of thinking mattered in the United States more than Catholicism did.
But the United States is a brief history. As soon as the United States lost its Protestant character, — and that happened decades ago, — it is agian, the Catholic Church that matters in the West, and the denominations only matter insofar as they retain their Catholic kernel of truth.
This is the reason why the energies of the lying Left are primarily focused on defaming the Catholic Church, often co-opting the Protestant denominations along the way.
The left hates Christians, period. Doesn’t really matter what denomination they’re in. Sad, isn’t it?
I vigorously beg to differ.
The Roman kernal of truth is thoroughly marbled with all kinds of UNBiblical heresies, idolatries, blasphemies.
The Church Universal basics of Christ come in the flesh, crucified, Resurrected, seated at the right hand of The Father interceding, coming again . . .
THAT kernal of truth is not OWNED by the Roman edifice. Christ died that through HIM ALL might Know The Father.
Any organization remotely in the least degree standing in the way of that; contaminating that; polluting that; bastardizing that; hereticalizing that . . . will be severely disciplined sooner or later by God Almighty—particularly the individual leaders contributing toward such.
It won’t matter if the organization is Baptist, Pentecostal or RC. My sense is that God has about had more than His fill of organized religion distancing individuals from HIM in favor of their own power-mongering idiocies and self-serving aggrandizements.
Increasingly, wherever there is a humility based authentic DEMONSTRATION and propagation of THE BASIC GOSPEL—pure religion undefiled—GOD WILL BLESS, PROTECT, MULTIPLY.
Where there isn’t—there will be increasing hardships, disciplines and at some point, disintegration and door closings. It won’t matter the ‘Christian’ Brand name on the door or sign in the front yard.
I would add to that . . .
any group
having a form of Godliness
but
DENYING THE POWER THEREOF
will be just as vulnerable to strong disciplines from God . . . and door closings.