I think Muslims and leftist Muslim defenders who are posting on FR to try to defend Islam by claiming that the Catholic Church is the same need to get a little knowledge under their ignorant belts. The only thing in the US that has even been remotely similar to Islam - because while the Puritans wanted to establish a theocracy, Roger Williams undid that and there has never been another mainstream Protestant attempt - is Mormonism.
And the Mormons were defeated by the US Army (under the Constitution based on the rights of man found in [Christian] natural law) and shaped up when they realized they couldn’t get away with a theocracy.
Interestingly, the colony founded by a Catholic, Maryland, specifically provided for freedom of religion. When Calvert’s grandson converted to Protestantism (because of his marriage), he denied freedom of religion and imposed an oath of adherance to his particular Protestant church.
Go and read up on history a bit, boyz.
WHERE did you conclude that I was either a Muslim or a leftist Muslim defender? lol! Because I asked you a simple, provable question about the Catholic Church being both a political and religious system? You need to read your history. Especially Constantine. Perhaps you are just ignorant of the fact that this is true. There is no shame in ignorance. There is shame in attacking someone when you don’t like the truth they show you.
“while the Puritans wanted to establish a theocracy, Roger Williams undid that”
Yes, that’s right. There is no threat of a “Catholic theocracy,” of course. The whole point is the effort by some Catholics to impose their religious views on others, which is very unlikely to be successful.
Hank