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Thanks for the ping, but with all due respect to Titanites, I don't believe this article offers anything positive in the way of Catholic apologetics.
It does exactly to Protestantism, what some Protestants on this thread have already done to Catholicism, to whit, likening Catholicism to Islam, with the favorite passage from the Catechism, paragraph 841, which Catholics must constantly address, over and over again, on other fora (and even here from time to time). It's difficult enough, IOW, to address that paragraph without the inflamatory nature of an article such as this.
I believe there is a strategy to apologetics, just as in war, and one must be conscious of one's weaknesses, and not expose them unduly, unless one is prepared to take a loss, or unless it's unavoidable. Always the greatest strategy in war is to take the one action that reaps the greatest benefit, while suffering the least amount of loss. This article generates an opportunity for the more learned Protestant to immediately point to paragraph 841 and shout "hypocrisy!" (note, there are plenty of sound, logical explainations for Paragraph 841 of the Catechism, but even simply having to explain them on a thread like this automatically puts the Catholic on the defensive, and still, with no way to justify the OP)
That's a stalemate, at BEST. No chance for victory here.