Give me a quick rundown on KKK's anti-Catholicism.
Was it just because they didn't see the Catholic immigrants in the US as white, or was there other reasons?

>>17871278 (OP)
they were pissed at the irish for fighting on the side of the north in the civil war

>>17871279
The first klan wasn't really anti-catholic though.

KKK was just a nationwide, high test neighbourhood watch. They just didn't like outsiders, be they Catholic immigrants or local blacks or whatever. No deep logic to it.

>>17871278 (OP)
Many protestants believed that Catholics could never be loyal to the US, thinking they were loyal to the pope first and foremost. So they saw Catholics as a foreign, anti-protestant fifth column.

>>17871278 (OP)
Because Catholics represented the old religious order that their retarded ancestors tried to get away from when they originally fled England centuries ago.

>>17871278 (OP)
The Catholic Church is a supranational organization that was seen as a threat to American national sovereignty. Think of how conservatives view the United Nations today.

>>17871278 (OP)
Around the time of the "enlightenment" the catholic church embraced the heresy that non whites are called to be a part of the body of Christ like whites had always been.

That was the reason Protestantism in general happened, a reaction to the catholics trying to poison God to death.

eventually the protestants mostly embraced the same heresy, and the last vestiges of the original correct definition of Israel died out in the south within the last two centuries.

>>17871278 (OP)
Majority of the KKK identify as Baptist Adventist. They tend to think of the Catholic church as pagan idolatry, and the Pope as a king.

The usual idiocy.

When abolitionists in the north weren't crying about a southern conspiracy to take over the US they were screeching about a catholic conspiracy to take over the US. So even in the north the mass illegal immigration of irish was a huge concern

>>17871278 (OP)
Catholicism is bad, and this is coming from someone whose ancestors were all Catholic. The centralized power of the church poses a threat to national sovereignty, and, like all institutions, has been corrupted by the post-war liberal order.

>>17871278 (OP)
They believed that Catholics would be loyal to the Papacy over the United States.

>>17871574
And they were. Catholics consistently voted for the destruction of the nation for decades.

>>17871577
true

>>17871400
I think protestanism happened because of shit like paying to get out of hell and corruption of the church, which was why their were multiple proto prot movements centuries before, not becuase of muh browns

>>17871640
Protestantism happened because catholic kings used jews to give out loans for monasteries and lords and then raised their interest rates without notifying them so that they could ring them for all they were worth, allowing the jews to take whoever's land or property the king wanted as long as they were in enough debt due to the interest rate manipulation.

>>17871666
and this was to pay for endless war

The original Reconstruction era Klan didn’t care about Catholics and was solely focused on blacks, but Klan 2.0 in 1920s was anti immigrant, and Irish, Italian and German Catholic immigrants made up a big chunk of Ellis Islanders. The Klan was popular in areas like Long Island, the Midwest, Colorado and the Pacific Northwest where there were very few blacks but lots of immigrants and Catholics.
One of the weirdest moments in /his/ was the Klan trying to ally with the left leaning Mexican government against Catholics during the Cristero War.

>>17871298
>>17871278 (OP)
Up until the fall of the Papal States, the Vatican's armies were largely made up of volunteer formation who paid for their own gear. The state also attracted irregular volunteers from all over Europe whenever it seemed like anybody was messin with it.
So yes, the Pope once had the ability to summon armies.

>>17871308
england had not been catholic for about hundred years already when mayflower sailed to america

>>17871719
He certainly did, but he was no longer as major player in secular politics after Napoleon, and in fact the Vatican was constainly bitching about how detached American Catholics were from the "proper" views on things like Church and state. In fact many Americans were accused of heresy over their embrace of American values, though Vatican II has voided a lot of those criticisms.

>>17871278 (OP)
There’s this acronym called WASP. Which stands for White Anglo Saxon Protestant. If you weren’t a WASP or had one of the four letter, they generally disliked you. Papists aren’t Protestants and they generally aren’t white, or Anglo Saxon. Therefore, they were anti-papist.

>>17871278 (OP)
Most Protestants at the time were anti-catholic. It's not something special about the KKK.