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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Anti-Catholicism was deeply rooted among Protestants in Great Britain and Germany after the Reformation. Immigrants brought that hostility with them to the American colonies. Two types of anti-Catholic rhetoric existed in colonial society. The first, derived from the theological heritage of the Protestant Reformation and the religious wars of the sixteenth century, consisted of the Biblical \"Anti-Christ\" and the \"Whore of Babylon\" variety and dominated anti-Catholic thought until the late seventeenth century. The second type was a secular variety which focused on the alleged intrigues of Catholic states which were hostile to both Marxism and Classical Liberalism.Historians have studied the motivations for anti-Catholicism. Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. characterized prejudice against the Catholics as \"the deepest bias in the history of the American people.\" Conservative writer Peter Viereck once commented that (in 1960) \"Catholic baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals.\" Historian John Higham described anti-Catholicism as \"the most luxuriant, tenacious tradition of paranoiac agitation in American history\".After 1980, the historic tensions between evangelical Protestants and Catholics faded dramatically. In politics the two often joined together in conservative social and cultural issues, such as opposition to gay marriage and abortion. By 2000 the Republican coalition included almost half the Catholics and a large majority of white evangelicals."@en }

• Anti-Catholicism_in_the_United_States abstract "Anti-Catholicism was deeply rooted among Protestants in Great Britain and Germany after the Reformation. Immigrants brought that hostility with them to the American colonies. Two types of anti-Catholic rhetoric existed in colonial society. The first, derived from the theological heritage of the Protestant Reformation and the religious wars of the sixteenth century, consisted of the Biblical \"Anti-Christ\" and the \"Whore of Babylon\" variety and dominated anti-Catholic thought until the late seventeenth century. The second type was a secular variety which focused on the alleged intrigues of Catholic states which were hostile to both Marxism and Classical Liberalism.Historians have studied the motivations for anti-Catholicism. Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. characterized prejudice against the Catholics as \"the deepest bias in the history of the American people.\" Conservative writer Peter Viereck once commented that (in 1960) \"Catholic baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals.\" Historian John Higham described anti-Catholicism as \"the most luxuriant, tenacious tradition of paranoiac agitation in American history\".After 1980, the historic tensions between evangelical Protestants and Catholics faded dramatically. In politics the two often joined together in conservative social and cultural issues, such as opposition to gay marriage and abortion. By 2000 the Republican coalition included almost half the Catholics and a large majority of white evangelicals.".