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Diversity, multiculturalism, tolerance, dialogue, ecumenism, compromise, syncretism, nuance, bending and blending, etc. are wonderful as long as they're not done with those nasty Evangelical Protestants.

I'm still livid about this double standard (as described in my earlier post). The Catholic Church, which claims to be the true religion of all humanity, has for a long time arbitrarily treated American Fundamentalist Protestants like lepers. But what's the surprise here? Everyone does this. I mean, even Black Fundamentalist Protestants, who are theoretically the co-religionists of the rednecks, prefer atheists, evolutionists, and homosexuals to the "po' buckras." And while we're at it, high-tushed over intellectual American Catholic bishops who treat "redneck" Fundamentalists like infected carcasses, have no trouble with emotional literalistic Black Protestants. For some reason the entire world has just made up its mind that the American "redneck" Fundamentalist is the sub-human cause of all the world's troubles.

There's not a liberal "lover of all people" in the world who doesn't hate us rednecks just because of the culture and geography into which we were born.

I've about had it. No more! NO MORE!!!

Freaking hypocrites, every one of the "cracker"-bashers--including the ones here at FR!!!

The Catholic Church, which claims to be the true religion of all humanity, has for a long time arbitrarily treated American Fundamentalist Protestants like lepers.

I don't hear any Catholics denouncing fundamentalists as antiChrist, do you?

I don't see any Catholics making millions of dollars publishing "novels" which depict a future fundamentalist leader as the "false prophet" of Revelation. Do you?

I don't hear any Catholics claiming that fundamentalism is a Satanic counterfeit of Christianity invented by the emperor Constantine, do you?

I don't hear any Catholic conservatives declaring their unwillingness to work with fundamentalists on social issues, even one so central as abortion. Do you?

I don't see any Catholic apostolates or "ministries" invading fundamentalist Protestant gatherings, leafleting fundamentalist kids with deceptive literature which attempts to look like something from a fundamentalist Protestant background on the outside, while on the inside trashing fundamentalism in an attempt to draw those kids away from their faith. Do you?

I'll tell you what I'm sick and tired of. I'm tired of my faith being relentlessly lied about, trashed, slandered, and misrepresented by so-called "conservatives" on this so-called "conservative" website, and I'm tired of wandering just what I have in common with those so-called "conservatives," who make it clear at every turn that don't respect my right to worship as I see fit.