Was the American Revolution a Masonic plot fueled by anti-Catholic sentiments in New England?

Answer 1

I don't think so.

Catholics were being persecuted in England.

Most colonial Catholics were from Maryland, were not loyalists, and fought as part of the revolutionaries.

Charles Carroll, a Catholic, even signed the Declaration of Independence.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

There were Freemasons on both sides, fighting against each other for their cause, so I would not suspect any organisation would intentionally provoke battle where regardless of what happens it's own members would be killed.

There is a great scultpure depicting two brothers of the craft, on either side of the revolution, at Gettisburg.

Answer 3

Most of the founding fathers were Freemasons, and still more are roumored to have been, but even though there are roumors out there, there is no way to prove it right or wrong, but I think it might have either been fuled by masons wanting to hurt England and make us a world power, or it would just have been a bunch of people rufusing to bow down to a tyrant.

Here is a good link, its a long article, but its worth reading:

http://www.prolognet.qc.ca/clyde/illumin.htm

Answer 4

The English weren't Catholic!

Answer 5

I doubt it. there were decades of political and ecomonic causes.