On 07/08/2014 08:28, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> The Founding Fathers /and/ the Scottish Protestants.

Okay.

> Besides, I guess
> that the massive arrivals of Irish and Italian Catholics in the 19th
> century again exacerbated the intolerance - on both sides probably.

I would think, more on the protestant side. If history is anything to go 
by. (I was christened a Catholic but brought up a Prody in a sectarian 
society. I say protestant but it was the CoE, which was considered a bit 
too close to Rome for most peoples liking.)

> The result is a weird societal concoction.
>

No arguments there. ;-)

>> Even the Netherlands was not liberal enough for them.
>
> Indeed. And maybe they felt they were in the devil's own country, who
> knows.
>

Purgatory, not Hell, by comparison.

> We still have our own little bible belt though.


Don't we all. :-)

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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