Comments by "Akira Nakamoto (中本明)" (@AkiraNakamoto) on "Gresham College" channel.

No matter what caused the 30 Years' War, the military gift of Gustavus Adolphus saved lots of Europeans (and their descendants including the protestant colonists). Without Gustavus Adolphus, many territories of modern Germany, Netherland and perhaps Denmark, Sweden and Norway would be conquered by Catholics and join the PIGS nations (Portugal, Italy and Spain. Greece is an Orthodox nation spared here to save distractive discussions) to suffer and to be haunted by social corruption and low efficiency just like what happened in the Catholic colonies such as Latin America, Philippines and South Vietnam (before communist's takeover). Bohemia (nowadays Czech) is such an example. Gustavus Adolphus could not save Bohemia in his military campaign, so Bohemia had been de-protestantalized and out of luck. At the time of the Thirty Years' War, there was little difference between Protestant nations and Catholic nations in regard to technology power, social justice and economic efficiency. Nevertheless, after 400 years, the descendants of those Protestant nations (and their ex-colony nations) beat the shit out of the ones of those Catholic nations (and their ex-colony nations). There is no doubt which side is pro and which side is con against the human civilization.
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@TheSuperbCrow . Superior your dumba$$. Look at those Catholic nations today, their engineering is a joke, their military power is a joke. For instance, France is the least Catholic nation because they had their own free will in the Thirty Years War (they didn't obey Vatican). Their military power was faded the last, nevertheless became a joke in WW2. Spain and Italy were long gone before France. Today, the engineering industry of all Catholic nations is a joke. I won't buy any car made in France, Italy and Latin America.
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@TheSuperbCrow . You are an idi0t. The founding fathers of this nation were mostly puritans. To teach you some facts, Calvinists in England are called puritans, in Scotland are called presbyterians, in Europwan continent are called Huguenots. There were 2 principles in (medieval) Catholics: 1 the old and new testaments, and 2 Catholic church is the only agent of the paradise, anyone who disagrees to this rule is subject to Inquisition. Protestants inherit 1 and reject 2. Communists reject 1 and inherit 2 (commies rename the paradise to the communism society in the future far far away, and rename church to party). This is the hidden channel between Catholicism and Communism, and it explains the reason why Catholic regimes (e.g. South Vietnam in 1960s) and communist regimes (e.g. North Vietnam) are all plagued by corruption and lawless (per Anglo-Saxon legal system's perspective).
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@oskarfabian5200 . The founding fathers' personal faith is not the concern here. They were from and they were living in a Calvinist's community. Every believer is priest. I coined the term "peerdom" to refer to Calvinist's community, as it is compared with "serfdom" coined by Friedrich Hayek. The success of Anglo-American society, aka. the Five-Eyes nations, is largely attributed to this "peerdom" practice. That's the point.
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@oskarfabian5200 . Protestantism is not about the religion. It is about the randomized capitalism games played in a "peerdom". Read Max Weber's 1905 book. Max did a better job than your enumeration here. Once upon a time the Hispanic empire in Latin America also had resources, size, lack of enemies, secularity, immigration. They also copycatted well written modern constitution from the Five-Eyes in 20th century. Yet they weren't, aren't and will never be nations that can be classified as "peerdom".
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