You talk about the nicknames for non-Catholics, there are equally offensive nicknames for Catholics that I have seen here.
One is RC — there are many rites in the Catholic Church, but only one church. The rite referred to with those letters is the Latin Rite.
There are significant doctrinal differences between Roman Catholicism and other varieties.
By using the term *Roman Catholic* (which Roman Catholics do and apply to themselves) we are distinguishing between the different factions of Catholicism.
It’s hypocritical for Catholics to use the term Roman Catholic themselves and for themselves, and then whine about others using it as well.
RC is nothing more than an abbreviation for Roman Catholic, as RCC is for Roman Catholic Church, no different than any abbreviations used for Baptists, Lutherans, etc.
GARB = General Association of Regular Baptists
ELCA = Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
PCA = Presbyterian Church in America
SBC = Southern Baptist Convention
Y’all Catholics need to get over yourselves and your martyr/persecution complex that sees everything that y’all don’t like as a personal offense. It doesn’t wear well when you claim it for yourself when it’s nothing more than being too easily offended.
IOW, GROW UP and quit your whining and trying to control everything everyone else does or says.
The Catholic church does not own the world, or our language or anyone’s soul. They have no right to control or try to control everything anyone else does.
Learn to live with it.
Nonsense, and which further makes your faith look like it produces peevish (i complain to much myself) spokespersons, like as liberal are noted for being.
This is a Internet forum, and abbreviations are to be expected, including "Prots," which i use myself. They save my arthritic fingers from typing more typos for one, and for another distinguishes btwn RCs and EO Catholics.
As for the Roman aspect, that is used by popes and councils themselves, and represents where the head of all Cath churches in communion with the pope, like as Washington represents America's leadership.
No, I mentioned some of the derogatory condescending words used to describe non Catholics.
Perhaps you would like to comment on the meat of my post, instead of just cherry picking the one comment you can safely speak about.
Here are my other comments, in case you didn't read my whole post:
... (non Catholics) started posting threads exposing the non-Scriptural non-Biblical aspects of the teachings of Catholicism.Or do you not believe those non scriptural comments are true as Christians know they aren't?Some examples being that if you are baptized Catholic (by the way, no one is "baptized" into any denomination) you are "marked", ie that is branded, for life as a Catholic and you stay a Catholic all your life and you cannot leave to become a Christian instead.
Also that to be saved and go to heaven everyone must "come back" to the OTC (One True Church) or they are not legitimate Christians and are not part of the body of Christ.