P-Marlowe is right on this one. Frankly, I am sick to death of the term "anti-Catholic" and wish it were abolished from our lexicon permanently. It smacks too much of weakness , timidity and victimhood, and it contributes exactly nothing to the debate. True rabid anti-Catholics (Communists, Nazis, KKK et al.) don't give a flying flip that you call them that and wear it like a badge of honor. Other people, who are convinced of the "errors" of the Roman Church but have no particular animus toward we its members, do not deserve to be lumped in with those.
I understand that devout Catholics get their back up about some of these threads, but as folks point out here, the Catholic threads (on the papacy, Immaculate Conception et. al) do *exactly* the same things to Protestants. And they should not feel that in asking honest questions or raising objections they are being accused of bigotry. And frankly, even the true bigots (of which there are thankfully few on this forum) deserve answers to their points. Even if it doesn't help them personally, it may help someone else who reads it.
I would ask Catholics, that if you find yourself getting angry at a thread like this one but are not capable of equipped to handle it on an intellectual and rational level, then leave it in peace and offer a Hail Mary or two for the conversion of heretics. There are plenty of well-informed Catholics on this forum who specialize in these areas and who are very equipped to answer objections and do so charitably, factually, and without denigrating the other person.
It is a scandal, and a temptation for all of us, to often pass up opportunities to teach the truth in love in order to do the Evil One's work of division.
I have been reading the various posts in what one might call a theological "food fight". As an Evangical, non-Calvinist, I find your comments to be particularly Christlike.