DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH

This special collection brought in the huge sum of 300,000 Guilders. The Protestants in Catholic Ireland were persecuted as were the Catholics in most Protestant dominated lands. The Vatican raised money and armies to strengthen the hand of Catholic states and to foment revolution in Protestant states. Some of the protestant churches used the same methods to “interfere in the internal affairs of other countries” however. The early Americans were well aware of this history of religious struggles to become the State Religion, and this was one of the reasons they wrote the First Amendment. Without it and the others in the Bill of Rights, there would have been no ratification of the Constitution.

This special collection brought in the huge sum of 300,000 Guilders. The Protestants in Catholic Ireland were persecuted as were the Catholics in most Protestant dominated lands. The Vatican raised money and armies to strengthen the hand of Catholic states and to foment revolution in Protestant states. Some of the protestant churches used the same methods to “interfere in the internal affairs of other countries” however. The early Americans were well aware of this history of religious struggles to become the State Religion, and this was one of the reasons they wrote the First Amendment. Without it and the others in the Bill of Rights, there would have been no ratification of the Constitution.