[Steve_Seattle]

"America is unique as a country because of our Protestant Christianity and its principles used in the founding of this country."

You seem blissfully ignorant of Protestant violence - against Catholics, dissenting Protestants, "pagans," and "witches." Freedom of religion was not invented by the early Protestant reformers, but came about after centuries of religious conflict between and among Protestants, Catholics, and non-believers. You are in serious need of a history lesson. One specific example: the slaughter of thousands of Irish Catholics by Cromwell. (And, no, I'm not interested in Protestant-bashing or arguments about whether Catholicism is better or worse than Protestantism; I'm just trying to set the record straight.)

[Lady Heron]

No I am not ignorant of it, nor have I ever understood it except it also has politics and history mixed into it. But after that no I have never understood the fighting there and never will.

My post was not meant to bash Catholics but to point out how Jews see Catholic history as all Christianity and that is not the reality and that the freedoms of this country descend from our past Protestant faith, thus taking Christianity out of society they run into more danger of their freedoms than leaving it alone. Not to mention that it is only the Christians here in America that are their friends. Just look at the nonreligious left and their hatred for Israel.

I also realize that the Mid -Evil Catholic Church, that was not following the Bible, is not the Catholic Church of today. My point to him was to dig deeper into the reasons for what happened in Christianity 400 years ago and why are the different today.