[af_vet_1981]

Some may engage in that sort of projection (of their own faults upon others) but by and large they can hardly hold a candle to what occurred within Roman Catholicism for long centuries.

I find the gist of your argument undermines the legitimacy of Protestantism on two fronts
1. It acknowledges Catholicism is, essentially, visible Christianity for 15 long centuries.
2. It acknowledges Protestantism was, and presumably still is at least in chunks, antiSemitic, ignoring the experience of Jewry under predominately Protestant Germany in the Holocaust.

And now here it seemed to myself that you had been engaging in "projecting" antisemitism onto "protestants" while failing to recognize what there was of that commonly enough among [Roman] Catholics!

Just wowza' man. The pointing finger has multiple friends curled back pointing towards it's master.

This line of argument reminds me of the proverbial man who said he never beats his wife, and if she dares to say otherwise he will really beat her bloody.

[BlueDragon]

I'll look at one part of your assembled claims;

It acknowledges Protestantism was, and presumably still is at least in chunks, antiSemitic

No, I acknowledge no such thing. We may as well throw out the rest of what you claim I am acknowledging while we're at it, too.

"American" styled Protestant ethic was most chiefly the ethic that a nation was formed under who's laws precluded persecution based upon religion.

It is not mere coincidence that Jews have flourished in the United States.

This line of argument reminds me of the proverbial man who said he never beats his wife, and if she dares to say otherwise he will really beat her bloody.

Still desperate to make the charges of antisemitism stick on "Protestants", while excusing the past offenses prescribed and allowed under Roman Catholicism, eh?

Where's the Protestant Father Coughlin? The KKK maybe? Those latter are less "Protestant" than Coughlin was always a Catholic being as the latter were not formally part of mainstream "Protestant" Churches and were in fact much opposed by a majority. Coughlin, in comparison, kept his official RCC collar regardless if some portion of RCC hierarchy were opposed to (by degree or extent?) some of Coughlin's rhetoric.

Meanwhile, in past history Catholics have at times, with the support of their church --- beat their wives Jews bloody and to death. .

There's not much of that in comparison among American, or else English Protestants.

In Germany, although on highest levels both the Lutheran Church and the RCC were both co-opted by the Nazis, men such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer did more with less (if compared to RC popes) in the end being murdered by the Nazis for his opposition to Nazism.