“Mexico to this day has a ban on abortion, exceptions being carved out in some municipalities, under pressure from outsiders. Mexico outlawed slavery in 1829. When it comes to barbarity, post 1973 we are the world leader, and the Catholic Church is one thing athwart it, and often the only one.”
So you are going with “Virtuous Mexico, Barbarous USA” already?
“Protestant “tolerance” is simply indifference to right and wrong.”
You don’t understand religious tolerance, and it’s Protestant roots.
“Protestant” is not monolithic - there being many individual sects - all freely able to be practiced along with Judaism, and Catholicism.
You characterize “right and wrong” to be “Catholic and non-Catholic” - which you are free to do within your religion (and all do to some extent).
However, our founding fathers were scholars of history, and understood the mayhem and death that follows an absence of religious tolerance in the places they left.
They chose tolerance and life to intolerance and death.
You should too.
Comparatively. The US laws on abortion are about as barbaric as it gets; most countries, certainly most dominantly Catholic countries are doing much better. You are probably confusing barbarity with poverty, judging by your previous posts to me. There are some other criteria, for example, the crime rate and predictability of laws, and on these we do not do well.
Religious tolerance is a good thing, and the Catholics tolerate Protestants -- all of them -- and Jews and the Muslim and the Atheists just as much as the Protestants do. What sets the Catholics apart is not the denial of a right to preach and worship by non-Catholic groups, but the presence of well-defined dogmatic beliefs that allow us to say with precision what is and what is not Catholic. That is because we care for the truth. The Protestants don't seem to.