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To: Alex Murphy

It is amazing that someone would run an anti-American thread on for July 4th, but as immigration continues to overcome America, this is what the future will look like, as American history is erased, and replaced with a fake history, glorifying the European headquarters of the Catholic denomination.


17 posted on 07/03/2015 9:07:03 AM PDT by ansel12 (libertarians have always been for gay marriage and polygamy, gay Scout leaders, gay military.)
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To: ansel12
It is amazing that someone would run an anti-American thread on for July 4th, but as immigration continues to overcome America, this is what the future will look like, as American history is erased, and replaced with a fake history, glorifying the European headquarters of the Catholic denomination.

Catholics are quick to whatever credit they can get for the founding of the United States, but they're in no hurry to take credit for the Catholic-majority governments that they already enjoy. I wonder why?

If any corner of the globe should bear the imprint of Catholic values, it’s Latin America. Catholicism has enjoyed a spiritual monopoly in the region for more than 500 years, and today almost half the 1.1 billion Catholics alive are Latin Americans. Moreover, Latin Americans take religion seriously; surveys show that belief in God, spirits and demons, the afterlife, and final judgment is near-universal. The sobering reality, however, is that these facts could actually support an “emperor has no clothes” accusation against the church. Latin America has been Catholic for five centuries, yet too often its societies are corrupt, violent, and underdeveloped. If Catholicism has had half a millennium to shape culture and this is the best it can do, one might be tempted to ask, is it really something to celebrate?
-- from the thread Why hasn't Catholicism had a more positive effect?

....Compare two lists: According to the USCCB, the five most Catholic states, in population, are: Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. According to the American Life League, the states with the most pro-life legislation (i.e., inhibiting abortion in various ways) are: Oklahoma, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Texas. This is a shocker. In short, there is no Catholic political impact in support of life in those states reportedly having the most Catholics. As Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia put it, after the 2008 election, “[w]e need to stop overcounting our numbers, our influence, our institutions, and our resources, because they are not real.”
— from the thread The Mythical Catholic Vote: The Harmful Consequences of Political Assimilation


20 posted on 07/03/2015 9:16:00 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: ansel12

“as American history is erased, and replaced with a fake history”.

You mean like your Northern liberal pals are trying to wipe Southern heritage from the history books. Without the Southern United States there would be no United States. Without Catholic explorers there would be no United States. Without Catholic priests bringing Christianity to the Americas there would be no Christianity in America. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Now please tell me where I lied? Tell me that Columbus and the rest of the explorers who founded the majority of the great cities of North America were really evangelicals or baptists, or buddists, or moslems. I’m sure you can some up with some old BS to deny the truth.


21 posted on 07/03/2015 9:24:41 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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