From the dawn of the 19th Century right into the 20th, previous great revivals were replaced in America by vast, successive waves of terrible, righteous, Protestant reform.
Those familiar with paleocon and libertarian views will know that neither slavery nor racism brought on the crisis of secession, the North's horrific war to crush the Confederacy and conquer the South, the devastation of Reconstruction, or the lingering hatred of Southern whites for the North.
All that was the gift to America of intransigent abolitionism.
Much against the will of America's Catholic immigrants, Protestant fanaticism in others of its aspects condemned America to Prohibition and forced us twice to save the world and democracy from the accursed Hun.
Not to mention votes for women, brought to us by Suffragettes who loathed Catholic, hyphenated Americans.
The Holocaust of their aborted babies has been the most notable contribution to American life of the political empowerment of women, after Prohibition.
That and other facets of female rejection of home, family, and motherhood.
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