[Happy Rain]

America thrived back when Catholics and Protestants were butchering each other by the bushel—hard not to get nostalgic for the good old days;)

[Texas Fossil]

America thrived back when Catholics and Protestants were butchering each other by the bushel

When was that? In 1307? Don't believe Columbus was alive then. And I am not Catholic.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***America thrived back when Catholics and Protestants were butchering each other by the bushel****

In this day and age one should remember the opening lines from the movie EL CID.

“When men speak of you they speak of poets and scientists!
BURN YOUR BOOKS! Make WARRIORS of your poets! Have your scientists make new poisons for our arrows!

Set Christian king against Christian king! Then when they are weak I will sweep up from Africa!”—Bin Yusef

[sasportas]

Catholics and Protestants butchering each other by the bushel? Do you know your history? You make it sound as if it was a fifty-fifty thing. Check it out and see who did all the butchering by the bushels. Hint, it wasn’t Protestants butchering Catholics.

[Cronos]

Wrong. The fighting was major in Europe from the 16th century to the start of the 18th. By the 1700s (the 18th century) this was mostly set aside for political expedient.

Most of the "religious fights" were heavily nationalistic -- France and England used religion to justify some wars, and in other cases they were fighting each other and it was put as Catholic v/s non-C when it was really England v/s France