“Excuse me, are you kidding. The so called protestant faithful came running over to this land discovered by Catholics because they were being persecuted by that fat King Henry the VIII and his nasty looking daughter Elizabeth I. Henry VIII took over all of our Catholic Cathedrals and Colleges in England. They couldn’t even build their own stuff. Give us our stuff back!”
Here I thought that WASP’s had something to do with America - now come to find out it was everybody ELSE who built it, and WASP’s are the interlopers.
Boy, I almost feel guilty now.
>> Here I thought that WASP’s had something to do with America - now come to find out it was everybody ELSE who built it, and WASP’s are the interlopers.Boy, I almost feel guilty now. <<
I don't see what Gina's post about Catholics building up England and then being overthrown by Protestant insurgents has to do with WASPs founding America (of course WASPs founded America, since the formally Catholic England became Protestant in the 1600s, and England was the one that colonized the U.S.) Catholicism really was a small, marginalized religion in the U.S., back in 1776.
Of course for over 100 years, including since the industrial revolution, this is not the case. The U.S. has been dominated by Catholic thought during its rise to become a world superpower.