***The religious groups that fled to America did so because the state run churches in Europe were not very accommodating. Was their prejudice influenced by this, or was Rome the one state church that was warm and fuzzy while all the rest were cruel?***
My Huguenot forefathers fled France for a reason.
And I suppose they had just a bit of animosity towards those they fled from.
I don't believe I would be to eager to embrace those I'm fleeing from.
There was I think only a small window of time that Huguenots were even allowed to settle in Canada...from like 1600 to 1620-something or other. After that, France didn't allow any more Protestants to emigrate to the New World, which is one of the reasons Quebec turned out so solidly Catholic despite the religious division in the homeland.
Wmfights is right...nobody's hands are spotless in this mess. Old Scratch knows human nature well enough to see to that.