The garbage is coming not only from protestants, my dear. RC's and EO's have certainly thrown their share of it.
I've seen some Protestant threads. There was one sometime back wondering if belief in predestination led to laziness. Some Protestant was effusive in his graciousness when I suggested that it could be energizing to think that one was destined for bliss because of God's love. I tried to stick to the topic and to consider the question and t respect the questioner.
I think WITH GREAT AND IMPORTANT EXCEPTIONS the Prots have returned evil for good. Forest Keeper has been one of the few who seems to have been interested in understanding.
Has anyone attacked your personal beliefs and belittled you because of them? I find it offensive when the Lord's Mother is spoken of in such a manner - the woman that the Scriptures say "ALL GENERATIONS SHALL PRAISE [HER}". If I was an unbiased and unreligious person, I would think that Mary was devilish, dragging people to hell, by reading some of these posts...
Regards