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You know that. Most? Proddys know that. God knows that.
However, so many RC's hereon obviously live on campus at the ALICE IN WONERLAND SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND TIME-WARPED HISTORY MANGLING.
And they are simply not equipped to have to deal with such FACTS. First of all, their Daffynitionary doesn't have "facts" in it. So, they can't even begin to understand the term.
And then when the REALITIES start slapping them upside the face, all they can do is go bury their heads in 3' deep layers of white hankys until the terrors ebb away, usually very slowly.
There could have been no “anti Catholic” anything in 60AD
The Romans at that time were busy killing Christians and worshiping the gods/goddesses they collected from all over their empire.
Like apollo who they thought carried the sun across the sky
(the Romans were sun worshipers) and diana who they called the mother and queen of heaven (this one goes way back to the tower of Babel I think but by a different name)
Reality with facts. How very refreshing!