[Cronos]

Balderdash, it wasn't just a "protestant creation".

If one considers just Founding Fathers then There were no Baptists among the Founding Fathers --> there were

1. Church of England/Episcopalian: 28
2. Presbyterian: 8
3. Congregationalists: 8
4. Lutherans: 2
5. Dutch Reformed: 2
6. Methodists: 2
7. Catholics: 3 (C. Caroll, D. Caroll & Fitzsimons)
8. Deists: 7 (including Thomas Jefferson

So perhaps since there were no Baptists, should one consider as per your statement that they did not create this nation?

Furthermore, there were 3 Catholics and

• Evidently you never heard that Maryland was founded for providing religious toleration of England's persecuted Roman Catholics?

• Evidently you never knew that John Caroll had initially been a priest before devoting himself to the Revolution?

• Evidently you never heard of Fr. Pierre Gibault who pledged the support of the region of S-W Indiana to the USA (to Col. George Rogers Clark)?

• Evidently you never heard of the accomplishments of John Barry, a native Irishman who captained a number of ships during the war. Barry was the first to capture a British war vessel on the high seas; he also was wounded in a sea batter yet captured two British ships and fought the last battle on the seas of the Revolutionary war. He was George Washington's choice for commander of the US navy -- he was issued Commission Number 1 by Washintong and was not only the first American commissioned naval officer but also it's first flag officer

• Evidently you've never heard of the Marquis de Lafayette, a Catholic or the Polish captain Tadeusz Kosciuszko and both were key in the Revolutionary War?
• Evidently you never heard of Casimir Pułaski, a Pole who led Washington's cavalry and died in the battle for Savannah

• Evidently you never heard of the Catholic Philadelphia merchant Stephen Moylan who became Quatermaster General of the Continental Army?

• John Caroll says this about Catholic participation in the Revolutionary war (remember the country was only 1.6% Catholic):"Their blood flowed as freely, in proportion to their numbers, to cement the fabric of independence as that of their fellow citizens. They concurred with perhaps greater unanimity than any other body of men in recommending and promoting from whose influence America anticipates all the blessings of justice, peace, plenty, good orders, and civil and religious liberty"

  The religious freedom fought for was also religious freedom for Catholics from Protestant England, hence the Catholic volunteers and support from Catholic Irishmen, Frenchmen and Poles.
  

  So please don't say that Catholics were not involved in the creation of this nation -- this nation which got it's independence from a Protestant nation after all....

[Mach9]

I envy your quick recall of FACTS! I did mention Maryland, and certainly don’t claim that the U. S. was an exclusively protestant creation.

You remind me of others: add Baron Von Steuben (honored in Ohio) to the Revolution’s Catholics and convert (St.) Elizabeth Bailey Seton as the founder of the country’s first free (and Catholic) schools.

It occurs to me, too, that “America” (i.e., the entire western hemisphere) itself is named for a Catholic and the USA capital’s name is shared by a Catholic. And, of course, the fact that the founders had somewhere to “found” rests exclusively on the discoveries of Catholic or preReformation Christian explorers. This extends the argument a bit but it certainly ought to carry some weight.

[Salvation]

Charles Carroll, founding father and "an exemplar of Catholic and republican virtue" [Ecumenical]

[ansel12]

I know that we have a hand full of Catholic, America haters here who are determined to rewrite American history and the Protestant creation of the greatest nation that has ever existed but I don’t see wasting time with them today.

Learning about those America haters was one of the great shocks to me when I started reading FR, I had never known that the element existed, at least not among the minority of Catholics who are not full fledged liberals.