Yeah. It's so interesting that our English forbears came here principally to get away from the statist church and its Romanist roots. That this country was rooted in RCC doctrine? I don't think so. Another attempt to claim a nonexistent superiority of principle.
Montesquieu, born, baptized, schooled Catholic.
Of course the Declaration of Independence was influenced by Catholic thought. What made America different from all of the other New World Catholic influence, was English, German and Dutch practicality and discipline.
The United States was the only nation founded as largely a deliberate, non-Catholic Christian nation.
At the founding they were about .4% and mostly in Maryland, and were close to nonexistent until they started showing up in the 1840s, and in the 1850s reached 5% of the population, bringing in unionism and big city politics.
JFK devoted his life to getting in the 1965 Immigration Act, and since then, the democrats have imported 10s of millions of Catholics.
LOL what a bunch of wishful hooey! Happy PRESBYTERIAN REBELLION DAY, everybody!
During the era of the American Revolution, King George III and his supporters perceived that the war was a "Presbyterian Rebellion." Why? The label "Presbyterian" was a much more ambiguous designation than it is at present. Employed broadly as a synonym for a Calvinist, a dissenter, or a republican, the term was used with considerable imprecision in the eighteenth century. Furthermore, it was used as a demagogic tool to inflame popular passions. The term Presbyterian carried with it the connotation of a fanatical, anti-monarchical rebel. Those who designated the war a Presbyterian Rebellion could be considered biased, partisan, and somewhat extreme....Calvinists and Calvinism permeated the American colonial milieu, and the king's friends did not wish for this fact to go unnoticed. This inconspicuous reality is one of the missing chapters in the conventional history of the genesis of the United States....American Government and Christianity - America's Christian Roots
-- from the thread The Presbyterian Rebellion: An analysis of the perception
....we should not be surprised to find that the Calvinists took a very important part in American Revolution. Calvin emphasized that the sovereignty of God, when applied to the affairs of government proved to be crucial, because God as the Supreme Ruler had all ultimate authority vested in Him, and all other authority flowed from God, as it pleased Him to bestow it.
The Scriptures, God's special revelation of Himself to mankind, were taken as the final authority for all of life, as containing eternal principles, which were for all ages, and all peoples. Calvin based his views on these very Scriptures. As we read earlier, in Paul's letter to the Romans, God's Word declares the state to be a divinely established institution.
History is eloquent in declaring that the American republican democracy was born of Christianity and that form of Christianity was Calvinism. The great revolutionary conflict which resulted in the founding of this nation was carried out mainly by Calvinists--many of whom had been trained in the rigidly Presbyterian college of Princeton....
....In fact, most of the early American culture was Reformed or tied strongly to it (just read the New England Primer). Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, a Roman Catholic intellectual and National Review contributor, asserts: “If we call the American statesmen of the late eighteenth century the Founding Fathers of the United States, then the Pilgrims and Puritans were the grandfathers and Calvin the great-grandfather…”
-- from the thread John Calvin: Religious liberty and Political liberty
I thought it was Masonic?
Ping for later
Oh lovely, religion-centrics are even picking Catholic versus Protestant fights on the even of Independence Day. Raising division instead of seeking the unity that the founding fathers, who were Protestant, Catholic and Jewish, joined in to fight the British monarchy and establish a new country where freedom of religion was one of the keystones.
Lord save us from always seeking disunity in Your name.
What is it with mere mortals taking credit for God’s blessings? No wonder we find ourselves in the state of ill repute. Nation of narcissists.