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.
![](http://tars.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/sinsav.jpg)
The Savior
6c
St. Catherine, Mt. Sinai
![](http://www.wga.hu/art/w/weyden/rogier/06crucif/0crucifi.jpg)
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
![](http://www.wga.hu/art/r/raphael/2firenze/2/33cardel.jpg)
Madonna del Cardellino
Raffaello
1507
Oil on wood, 107 x 77 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Amazing, it is like talking to the borg, America needs to be absorbed and made like old European nations, in other words, destroyed, overcome, in your Catholic reality.
I can see why Catholics make up the voting base of the American left and have going back as far as I can find, conservatives need to read posts like yours and understand why Catholics elect people like Obama, and why the Kennedys are Catholic royalty, and why they changed immigration.