[Frapster]

In America we avoided the insanity that had gone on in Europe with its wars of religion, where Catholics burned Protestants at the stake and Protestants desecrated Catholic churches. Indeed, Catholic/Protestant strife is still going on in parts of Europe.

In the 1930's and 1940's the Catholics in Roswell, NM used to throw rocks on top of the tin roof at my parents local church during services in an effort to disrupt and drive them away. :-)

[rustbucket]

In the 1930's and 1940's the Catholics in Roswell, NM used to throw rocks on top of the tin roof at my parents local church during services in an effort to disrupt and drive them away. :-)

Sorry to hear it. We didn't escape it entirely.

I got interested in the French wars of religion after I visited a place in France where 2,000 Protestants were hung. I recommend two books: The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 by Mack P. Holt and The French Wars of Religion, Selected Documents by David Potter.

This was an absolutely frightening period of history. Read about the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre sometime. You can probably find it on the web.

[aristeides]

I'm Catholic. Protestants may have acted badly towards us in the past. But that's the past. Right now, Protestants are not the chief danger to us, or in fact any danger to us. Secularizers are the biggest threat both to us Catholics and to Protestants and, for that matter, to members of all religions. Luxuriating in past grievances is not only self-indulgent, but irresponsible, in the face of dangers like those posed by the secularizers.