I believe that by “founders”, she refers to the Pilgrims, and she’s correct. They despised the pope and all things Catholic. Wouldn’t even celebrate Christmas (Christmas), as it was a mass instigated by Catholics — so they believed.
It was against the law in early Massachusetts to observe Christmas—unless it fell on a Sunday you were supposed to work. The Puritans also didn’t have much use for mainstream Anglicans or for Quakers.
The first reformers were critical of Roman Catholics definitely.
They believed the papacy was the seat of antichrist and the popes ‘antichrist’..
Pilgrims, puritans, whatever carried with them what would be considered an anti Rome Bible today, called the Geneva Bible. Came before the King James.
And amazingly, scripture would call rabinic Judaism ‘’antichrist’ too..so is Islam..
Ann swerves into something that was known 500 years ago during the reformation.
What would a protestant daughter do if everything they thought they knew turned out to be just a Roman lie?
The reformers were more protestant than people are today.
Satan has done some subtle work on the sheep. Prophetic