[ansel12]

Of course, there is no shortage of liberal Protestants of any description.

Evidently there is a big enough shortage that Protestants voting majority democrat is extremely rare, so yes, there definitely is a shortage (as far as democrats are concerned), that is why the immigration laws had to be changed to replace Americans with Mexicans and Latin Americans.

And America's greatness far exceeds those nations and empires that you mentioned, power, ruthlessness, and longevity are not the measures.

[annalex]

Att his point, America is an overstretched empire repopulating itself with foreigners and at the verge of bankruptcy. America was great intil it became that, and yes, Protestantism had a lot to do with both her greatness and her present decline. History will judge America's contribution to mankind. The Catholic culture that Byzantium, the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, or Renaissance produced would however be hard to beat.

Below are three random samples.

The Savior

6c
St. Catherine, Mt. Sinai



Crucifixion Triptych

Rogier van der Weyden

c. 1445
Oil on oak panel, 101 x 70 cm (central panel), 101 x 35 cm (each wing)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna



Madonna del Cardellino

Raffaello

1507
Oil on wood, 107 x 77 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence