Fantastic words. Let us examine them further. What is the most prosperous Western democracy now?
Canada. Highly Catholic.
What about the US? A Protestant President driving the country into the ground. Nope.
France? An improving economy.
Sweden? Nobody wants to live in Sweden now.
Germany? Better than the US, that's for sure.
England? No way.
Ireland? The fastest growing economy in Europe.
I congratulate you, Dr. E. Something of a triumph. You have found yet another way to be wrong.
Behold the honesty and wisdom of the Romanist.
Some people try to rise from rot and stupidity into enlightenment.
Others wallow in evil and stupidity, and try to pull others down with them.
I can only hope there is a special place in Hell for the wallowers who post here.
Protestantism is the majority religion in Germany.
It's about evenly divided between Protestants and Catholics in Canada.
France is Roman Catholic because Rome slaughtered all the Protestants 450 years ago. Even so, you can have France.
We'll take England, Sweden and the United States. Happily.
Your peculiar remark stating "Ireland is the fastest growing economy in Europe" is not supported by the facts.
According to the CIA Factbook, the list of countries by real GDP growth rate reveals that Ireland's GNP ranks 203rd and their GNP has actually declined 7.5% this past year.
Roman Catholic apologists just make things up.
Behold the honesty and wisdom of the Romanist as he sets himself up for comparison next to Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, and Joseph Biden.
Well, Mark, sorry. What a baseless reply.
Look at what the colonial powers of Europe left in their wake following the great period of the so-called colonization of the world. South America was a basket case, and still is saddled with bad government. All is a direct legacy of Spain and Portugal. Latin America ... basically the same story, and a direct legacy again of Spain, chiefly, and latterly, in the case of Mexico, France. Africa, simply look at who was the colonial power and then how the now independent nation was fared and is faring. South and Southeastern Asia, again, simply look at who was the colonial power, if it was Spain, Portugal or France, they have not fared very well. It is was England or, to a lesser extent, the Dutch, they did much better.
This is a line of argument you don’t want to take up if you are a Roman Catholic. Open your eyes and simply read.
To try to write off four hundred years of bad government and abuse of the individual on the basis of a few recent economic quirks that can be viewed in a more favorable light is not, shall we say, convincing, believable, or seriously taken. What you want to believe and what is believable are two entirely different things. Roman Catholicism breeds bad government because they do not properly separate the kingdom of God (spiritual) from the kingdom of power (secular). The pope dreams that he rules over Caesar, over the king. And in this he is completely wrong.