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Re your last sentence: hardly any Founding father was Catholic.

• douche 11y ago
  Characterizing the United States as a catholic country is a pretty big misrepresentation. Until the waves of immigration from Ireland and Italy in the mid 19th century, most Americans were protestant of one variety or the other. Part of the reason that Irish immigrants were initially considered "non-white" was because they were Catholics.
• ZeroGravitas 11y ago
  I think that's his point, before the founding fathers there was another version of (white-european) America, discovered by "catholic conquerors" so people choose which story to tell themselves.
• EliRivers 11y ago
  "Catholic" means "Christian" (well, "church universal", really), although it's often used as a shorthand for "Roman Catholic", being a subset of Catholicism. Sometimes the distinction is made by a lower case leading "c" for the church universal, and an upper case leading "C" for shorthand of "Roman Catholic". Here's a Lutheran church using the term in this way: http://web.archive.org/web/20081203192002/http://www.elca.org/Growing-In-Faith/Vocation/Rostered-Leadership/Leadership-Support/Safe-Place/Terminology.aspx http://web.archive.org/web/20081203192002/http://www.elca.or...
  • kylebgorman 11y ago
    Yes but the "universal" sense is vanishingly rare outside of religious boilerplate and doesn't make sense in the context here.