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To: ebb tide
Yet in contrast to Catholic countries such as Spain, it was here in America that Catholics obtained freedom of worship, and even predominated in many areas (now liberal), in a country that established separation of church and state. And Catholics also argue that the Revolution was wrong.

Your understanding of history is a bit skewed.

The separation of church and state is a myth based on a letter written by Thomas Jefferson and has no bases in the Constitution (Jefferson was in France at the time of the writing of the Constitution and had little direct influence on its development). It was activist judges that forced the separation of church and state not the founders. The Constitution as written only excluded religious test to the Federal Government not the states.

Several of the states at the time of the founding had state religions. One or more states (I can’t recall which) excluded Catholics from holding public office. Catholics did not predominate in any of the states. Catholics are estimated to have been 1.6% of the population at the time of the Revolution.

The Catholic Church is against revolution as a general rule not the Revolution.

60 posted on 08/27/2019 8:05:39 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Pontiac
Your understanding of history is a bit skewed.

To whom are you speaking? Please specify.

61 posted on 08/27/2019 8:09:14 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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