[JoeSchem]

There was a Protestant poster cheering such activity on this forum last year, when several Catholic churches in Brooklyn were vandalized. No one criticized him except Catholics.

I can see your wanting to condemn the Protestant poster equally with the vandal, but when you associate all non-Catholic posters on FR with complicity in vandalism, you're going a little too far off the deep end.

[wideawake]

This poster said that the vandalization in New York last year was a good thing, that it was the morally correct thing to do and that he wished he had the courage to do it himself.

He specifically argued from a Protestant context in support of the activity, citing the Protestant desecration of the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket in Canterbury as an admirable historical precedent.

I am not issuing a blanket condemnation of nonCatholics or Protestants - I am condemning that subset of Protestants who seem to believe that desecrating Catholic churches is a noble activity. Fortunately, the vast majority of Protestants nowadays seem to realize how evil this behavior is. Sadly, and Goblins is my witness on this thread, there remains a lunatic fringe within Protestantism which is not yet aware of Christian morality.