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So Protestant America was actually a creation of the Pope!

Got it! Who knew!

When does the torture begin for all us un-Believers? We so loved the Inquisition, St. Bartholomews Day, Ulster...the fun never ended under Roman control! Let’s do it again!

Your prejudice is showing. “Irish” does not necessarily mean “Catholic.” Of all the numerous Irish generals of the continental army listed in the article just one, Commodore Barry, was Catholic. There were perhaps 30,000 Catholics — about 1% of the population — in America at the time of the Revolution. There were significantly more Protestant Irish, since 1/6 of the population was Irish. Celebrating Irish contributions to our independence shouldn’t launch anyone on a rant about Catholics, considering the above.

And while I have no particular love fore the Catholic Church, the reality is that no persecution of Protestants by Catholics approaches the scale of the slaughter brought upon Irish Catholics — millions were deliberately exterminated by English Protestants. The French religious wars, the Spanish-Dutch conflicts, the wars of religion in Germany and the Slavic regions all saw plenty of murder and persecution by all sides, but only in Ireland did the persistent, continuous, deliberate genocide of a particular group of people go so entirely unabated for so long, with additional thousands shipped off to work as slaves. It’s simply beyond comparison.