http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1884779_1884782_1884760,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801853,00.html
Nice quote at the beginning of the second article: “Calvinism was once virtually the American Faith. It came to New England with the Puritans, to New York with the Dutch Reformed, to Pennsylvania with the German Reformed. And wherever Scottish Presbyterians went in the U.S., predestination, 90-minute sermons, and the “Shorter Catechism” went with them.”
If America had been founded by Catholics, America never would have been founded.
Catholicism has never resulted in the liberty of nations or democratic ideals.
Actually, if America had been founded by Catholics, America would have been founded earlier as the Brits were not too keen on Catholicism in the 1700s, remember?