>> Here I thought that WASPs had something to do with America - now come to find out it was everybody ELSE who built it, and WASPs 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.
“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.”
Funny. This part probably can’t be credited solely to Protestants or Catholics.
Still I’d like some honest Catholics to show up on this thread, like all the Catholics I know. I don’t know where some of the crazies come from.