[ROTB]

>A high percentage of them are practicing Catholics.

The only first world countries I count are, or rather, the only countries on earth I would consider living in are:

1) The USA - Protestant
2) Australia - Protestant
3) England, France, Germany - Protestant history
4) Israel - God's people

The "Catholic" countries south of the border are entities from which people are fleeing.

There is some truth to Catholicism, but not enough for the society to be as blessed as ours, praise Christ. The hard numbers fleeing lands filled with "practicing Catholics" to ours makes my point.

Wealth can only be created where there is morality, because only with morality can you create wealth without frittering it away hiring security or worrying about who your wife might be sleeping with.

[RFT1]

You need to learn a bit more. First off, Mexico, and many Latin American nations for that matter, has been ran by secular, heavily influenced by Freemasons, forces for almost 100 years. The Roman Catholic church untill it was devastated by Vatican II in the 1960s was the voice for Westeren Morality in these countries, but sadly the secular powers, who based their nations govrenments off the radical French revelutionary ideologies was in no mood to listen.

As for large parts of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Europe, they were quite developed industrially and they were quite Catholic.

[buccaneer81]

The only first world countries I count are, or rather, the only countries on earth I would consider living in are: 1) The USA - Protestant 2) Australia - Protestant 3) England, France, Germany - Protestant history 4) Israel - God's people

You would choose to live in France or Germany over Ireland? Oh, wait! Ireland is full of... Catholics! The horror!

Open bigotry is an ugly sight.