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> In this era, Protestants hated Catholics (and vice versa) all the same, but for the most part, they didn't kill each other over it It is because both pointed

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > > In this era, Protestants hated Catholics (and vice versa) all the same, but for the most part, they didn't kill each other over it > It is because both pointed their hatred and violence against a common "enemy". I think its more because America had strong cultural traditions about avoiding that drawn from fairly recent experience of several centuries of Protestants and Catholics killing each other all the time over religion. The religious test clause in the base Constitution and the free exercise and establishment clauses in the First Amendment were not added based on abstract concern for freedom of religion, they were there because the wars of religion within Christian Europe weren't as distant and fuzzy a memory then as they are to Americans now.
  • personomas 10y ago
    No, no, no. It's just that the level of hate between Protestants and Catholics is obviously much less than it is from crazy Muslims onto "infidels". The crazy Muslims hate "infidels" and don't repent. Repenting is another important factor. Repenting stops hate from overflowing. When Muslims start killing, is when they're convicted in their hatred and stop repenting. When Americans or someone goes too far, yeah, maybe they throw a fist or something, but then they realize they're out of line and repent.