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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
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John Adams said that the constitutional government he helped establish could only survive with "a moral and religious people."

Protestantism is inherently morally relative. This undercurrent eventually pervaded all aspects of the culture, resulting in the insanity we have today.

Catholicism, on the other hand, is morally rigid. Its doctrines have not changed for 2000 years. Compare this to the US, where key concepts like separation of Church and State were completely inverted at the highest level of government (SCOTUS) less than 80 years after the Constitution was ratified!

If the colonists were bound to the teaching of the Catholic Church, they would have remained the "moral and religious people" Adams invoked.
gpt
This is really just a different manifestation of the “freedom vs security” debate. On the one hand you have a belief system that allows personal choice but can lead to shifting away from the original values, versus a belief system that does not allow personal choice but also can do a better job of maintaining the original values. 

My qualm with choosing the latter belief system is that you had better be 100% certain that the set-in-stone rules and values are the best and always will be the best, or you risk ending up with a poisoned system that is very difficult to change.