The fact that Trump is not known to be religious, and that his life doesn't model traditional Christian morality, is irrelevant. OPINION
NEW YORK — Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Md., was the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Anglo-American freedom and democracy was traditionally associated with rugged Protestant individualism; Catholics were believed to be reactionary slaves to an ecclesiastical hierarchy. Individualistic Protestants were free-thinking, industrious, and devoted to making the best of themselves , whereas Catholics were backward and not infrequently lazy.
Only one Supreme Court justice is a Protestant , and even he was raised Catholic. Three justices are Jewish. The other five are Catholics . Even a sinner can be God’s instrument To both groups, the fact that Trump is not known to be religious, and that his life has been anything but a model of traditional Christian morality, is irrelevant.
Yet it is important to understand the history of certain types of belief in order to comprehend an extraordinary era in which a sinful president is surrounded by believers who are convinced that God put him in the White House to save Israel and redeem a wickedly secular America.Pope Francis is not, which is why Catholics like Steve Bannon, an early ideological influence on Trump, dislike him deeply.
The attempt by contemporary Catholic conservatives and Protestant evangelicals to infuse politics with their religious beliefs obviously runs counter to the ideas of the French Revolution, which sought to uphold freedom from religion, but also of the American Revolution, which instituted freedom of religion. Both groups are targeting the carefully erected barriers between church and state.
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