NFBW wrote: All the founders were wrong and the Trump loving Catholic that you say you are is right . . No Thanks . . How dare you attack my country as horrible due to your perceived lack of sufficiently dominant American religion in our culture - militant Catholicism and white Evangelical Protestant nationalistic book burning Trumpism - No thanks
Our founders saw the horror and calamity of your brand of Christianity in Europe and were so horrified by it they designed a government to protect every free mind from the greatest calamity to mankind that had obstructed the Progress of Reformation and the Improvements of the human Mind in Society much longer and more fatally."
Anti-Catholic founding fathers “”” "Is there any instance of a Roman Catholic monarchy of five and 20 million at once converted into a free and rational people?" he once asked Dr. Joseph Priestley, a philosopher and Francophile.
"No, I know of no instance like it." Writing to Jefferson in 1816 about a recent revival of the Catholic order of the Jesuits, Adams wrote, "This Society has been a greater Calamity to Mankind than the French Revolution or Napoleans Despotism or Ideology. It has obstructed the Progress of Reformation and the Improvements of the human Mind in Society much longer and more fatally."
It's hard to recognize freedom's champion in this letter to his wife Abigail in which he describes a visit to St. Mary's Catholic Church in Philadelphia. His pen dripping with contempt and pity, Adams catalogues the repellant customs: "The poor wretches fingering their beads, chanting Latin, not a word of which they understood, Their holy Water--their Crossing themselves perpetually--their Bowing to the Name of Jesus, whererever they hyertit--their Bowings, and Kneelings, and Genuflections before the Altar." JA-antiCatholic-01 “””