Catholicism destroyed in debate

[Final-Fan]

Oh mrstickball.

"Catholocism (even speaking from a Christian point of view, as much as I love Christianity) has always been a blight on Christianity. Their list of crimes against humanity may only be surpassed by communism and Islam. Protestants haven't murdered people in droves like the Catholics ever had."

Oh really? A blight you say. Protestants have never been responsible for the kind of murder that Catholics have. Well I really have to disagree; the Thirty Years' War for instance saw brutality on both sides when Protestantism was quite young.

If actions of individual Protestants don't count, as you maintain later on (reversing the position in this quote about 'Protestants and Catholics'), then I'd like to know what your standards are on what is "officially" condoned on the Protestant side, to be compared with what is laid at the feet of Catholicism by way of the Catholic Church. At least that's how I presume you're measuring this.

"Of course, maybe I'm biased. They killed a lot of protestants because we thought differently."

Oh, and Protestants never have massacred Catholics.
(If that was meant as a genuine admission in addition to as a cheap shot, then I thank you for your honesty.)

"Don't you think that when you have nations that are 70%+ Catholic, and have been that way since their founding that their religion would have at least a slight correlation between their their religion and any other area of life, much less economy?"

You mean like half the countries of Europe?

[edit:  NOTE:  I just noticed that you might have been dropping the Africa angle and only pursuing your claim about South America; if so, you can ignore the following section if you want -- CAN, but IMO it's still interesting info.]
Also how many African countries are 70%+ Catholic? I didn't know, so I looked it up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_by_country#Africa
Central Africa -- the smallest of five subdivisions by population -- is 45% Catholic. The rest ranges from less than 20% to less than 2%. So ... I have to ask which countries, exactly, you're talking about.
[edit:  end section.]

(Note: Now that I look at it, Central and South Europe are as Catholic or more Catholic than Central and South America.)

"May I ask, then, what is the primary cause of South American nations being much lower in terms of GDP, despite having a similar history to North American immigrants?"

lol wut. Show me this similar history, you can only paint the broadest of brushstrokes to say they have had similar history at all. Oh they got colonized? Just like 80% of the world outside European powers.