President McKinley single handedly changed America's future in ways few Americans or Filipinos could have imagined.

One could easily conclude that McKinley used his own religious fervor to justify Manifest Destiny, and to establish the United States as just another colonial power trying to take over the planet in a name of a Protestant God.

And why not? Hadn't Europe done the same under Catholic approval?

https://libcom.org/history/us-conquest-philippines-1898-1902
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