You wrote:
“Britain had been Catholic and then became Protestant.”
Incorrect. Great Britain only came about as a nation when England, Wales and Scotland - all Protestant countries - became one united state under one Protestant monarchy in the early 17th century.
Like I said, I think you need to read more history.
I’m not talking about when the paper was signed, those people had been Catholic before they became Protestant, that was not the situation in America, and when I said the Roman empire, I was speaking of the Roman church that exists today.
What Ansel12 is apparently asserting is that the United States of America is the greatest nation in history because of it being Protestant from the beginning without Catholic influence.
Does that mean to ascertain exactly how great the US is we need to cut out any parts of the US that were previously colonized by Catholics and weed out any particular Catholics who contributed to the success of this nation? Not much left if we do that though.
Of course we have to take away French support of the Revolutionary War also. “Lafayette, we aren’t here”? DC would look pretty weird too.