Secularists having a paddy over the KJV Bible Readings

[gaelic cowboy]

In Latin America, Catholicism has socialist connotations due to the influence of Jesuit liberation theology (hence why the USA tried to spread Protestanism in places like Brazil and Nicaragua, to encourage free market views).

I seriously doubt there was a concerted effort to transplant Protestanism to encourage "Free market" views that strikes me as fantasy.

Far more likely is that Protestanism ie the American version had become established and wealthy enough to spread out into the world.

In the 18th century, deism was heavily associated with Irish Republicanism. Yet the early IRA had a largely Protestant leadership. And yet by the 20th century the mantle of Republicanism was held firmly in the hands of Catholicism. So obviously such political movements tend not to be a product of something inherent in these religions themselves.

Voting, property rights, education and remittances from America helped then jump a rung on the ladder, the big driver of the day is shame for surviving an Gorta Mór and shame for being poor.

Everyone who rose to prominance at that time was basically either a child of the famine or raised by famine survivors that caused deep deep anger.