How Anti-Catholicism Helped Fuel the American Revolution

Very interesting.

The Quebec Act has always taken a back seat in American history. Perhaps it required more explanation than the Stamp Act and just never got the print space it deserved.

I'm enjoying your articles very much. keep 'em coming.

It sickened me to see that idiot Bush sucking up to the pope. But the pundits are claiming it may be the Catholic vote that determines the next president, so that pretty much explains it.

Thank God, the Roman Catholic church no longer has the military might it once commanded to jam its medieval superstitions down people's throats under pain of torture and death. If there is anyone who thinks the Catholic church rightfully rules Christendom through a chain of popes going back to Jesus and Peter, you might want to read about Pope Formosus. Pope Stephen VI had his corpse disinterred, clad in papal vestments, and seated on a throne to face charges. The verdict was that the deceased had been unworthy of the pontificate. All his measures and acts were annulled, and the orders conferred by him were declared invalid. The papal vestments were torn from his body, the three fingers from his right hand that he had used in consecrations were cut off and the corpse was dragged through the streets of Rome and thrown into the Tiber river. Never heard that before? -- check it out for yourself in sources published by the Vatican.

Then there was the little matter of the Inquisition, not to forget the trial of Galileo -- right up to the U.S. bishops who allowed serial pedophiles to molest again and again.

While under the spell of Pope Alexander VI and the King of Englandss "Doctrine of Discovery" declaration, which I define as a "Christian" religious sectarian, Eurocentric and White racist - indigenous peoples' independent nations denying and land stealing doctrine...our founding fathers, in the Declaration of Independence, defined and declared their supposed "righteous justification" for (illegally) renouncing their English King's rule over them (treason) and establishing an (illegitimate) sovereign nation on land they stole from independent indigenous sovereign nations. Our founding fathers wrongly separated themselves from the Pope and their King and then established an unholy and illegitimate nation state, the United States of America.

When the Declaration of Independence was signed what happened to the indigenous people living in this land? The decisions that the earliest European colonizers and the founders of the newly established U.S.A made are why, after 500-plus years, indigenous people are still standing here trying to influence us to recognize that their nations are independent sovereign nations and our nation is an illegitimate "nation" established on their land, their continent.

despite all this hostility to catholics it didint stop the rebels enlisting the help of catholic powers France & Spain