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This may come as a shock to most folks here, but I do have friends who are catholic priests, matter of fact I got along better with them when I was working for military chaplains than I did with protestant chaplains, except perhaps on one occasion. Most of those priests were very well mannered and very scholarly. Most of them didn't even buy into everything the roman catholic system wanted them to teach. One even went so far as to say, "If anyone thinks this Eucharist is actually Jesus Christ, they ought to have a boot shoved up their butt."

But you know what made them even more likable?? It was the fact that even though we disagreed on matters of religion we agreed that we wouldn't interfere with our friendship and working relationship. Heck, I even helped to document a catholic worship service one of him so he could send a report back to his diocese. Does that sound like someone who hates catholics as I've been accused of?

We come here to further the cause of conservatism, at least we should be. If we can, as I've done in the past, "agree to disagree" and not get so arrogant and hateful in our language, then this would be a much nicer thread that it has been.

I do have friends who are catholic priests ... One even went so far as to say, "If anyone thinks this Eucharist is actually Jesus Christ, they ought to have a boot shoved up their butt."

Reminiscing about your long friendship with Judas Iscariot isn't going to impress Peter, John, or Mary. Sorry.

One even went so far as to say, "If anyone thinks this Eucharist is actually Jesus Christ, they ought to have a boot shoved up their butt."

With all due respect (to you), if that is a true story that fellow should be defrocked and excommunicated. In addition to privately (and not so privately) believing and teaching heresy, he was defrauding the Catholic soldiers to whom he should have been ministering the Gospel. I have naught but contempt for him. You, at least, are an honest Protestant. He was a dishonest liar; a protestant masquerading as a Catholic Priest. If that's the sort of "catholic" you get along so famously with I regret to inform that it doesn't prove much.