[boatbums]

What I mean ultimately is people casting stones that Catholics are some kind of evil for venerating someone who was holy. Sorry, but in all the threads I’ve seen over many years, that’s exactly my read. Some mocking, much condemnation as if they need execution. It really gets “evil”, and sorry, I see no need for that.

As long as you acknowledge that "some mocking, much condemnation as if they need execution" aimed at non-Catholic Christians is equally evil, then I would agree. I have enough confidence in my beliefs about Mary that not only can I defend why I don't believe the same way as Catholics do, I can still agree to disagree and leave it at that. It's between you and God.

The problem arises on these threads when Catholics get their dander up by the disagreement and start accusing others of hating or disrespecting Mary. We don't.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I’d agree both ways. But you don’t seem to understand. My point is partly, overwhelmingly I see hatred and vile coming from Protestants to Catholics on FR.

Perhaps as a late-comer Lutheran raised around loose Catholic practices I’m biased, but that is my honest view. Surely as blacks are more likely to bring out the vitriol, so are Protestants. At least here on FR.