Bonus points. If you think of something you would add to the new constitution.

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    As bad as Catholics can be, they are a bit player in the US religious landscape. I reject the premise that they are still the standard by which American “Christianity” sets its course. I’m not defending them exactly, I’m just saying they aren’t the most serious problem. By far the most dangerous are the post-second-reformation evangelicals. American Catholics are barely even Catholic by most measures, and are far more heavily influenced by American Pentecostals, Adventists, Mormons, and most dangerous of all Southern Baptists. Even their own forebears would consider what they’ve become blasphemous heretics.

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      Evangelicals are controlled by the Catholic church, whether they know it or otherwise. Most of the danger comes from Catholic-style parenting and indoctrination that happens in these churches at the hands of the Jesuit Order.

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            That’s accurate. The idea that they have anything to do with American Christianity is however entirely false.

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              Most of the Founding Fathers in America’s history were Catholic. In fact, George Washington’s handler was one member of the Carol family, a bunch of Jesuits. He even had some praise for the Catholic Church, because Freemasonry was taken over by the Jesuits when the Bavarian Illuminati was created in 1776.