The Klan asserted that the Founding Fathers of the United States, as ordained by God, intended to establish America as a nation to manifest the ideal social order based upon Protestantism and White racial purity.
The Klan, then, had a mission to uphold the Founding Fathers' alleged religious and social ideals for the sake of the nation.
Protestantism, according to them, would certainly lead to successful civilizational progress because it fulfilled all spiritual needs of humanity, whereas Catholicism had no ability do so.
As written in a pamphlet published in the early 1920s -- Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan -- "Distinction among the races is not accidental but designed...This distinction is not incidental, but is of the vastest import and indicates the wisdom of the divine mind".
"The Ku Klux Klan would redeem the white race whereby the American nation would rise Phoenix-like from current despair into a spiritual and holy vision that would include only white, native-born, Protestant Americans", says Gustaf Forsell in Blood, Cross and Flag: The Influence of Race on Ku Klux Klan Theology in the 1920s.
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