Please identify in what particular my post #21 was not true.
Isn't this hilarious? Throw a bone to the uninformed, and the bigots come out of the woodwork. I think what's pertinent about the "bigotry" issue is that, as we've seen here, they tend to identify themselves in grand fashion.
What is the difference between Protestant Fundamentalists attributing Catholic rituals to pagan origins (and this is a well-known fact, considering that the Church was so opposed to "Judaizers") and the almost universal position in the Catholic Church that the "old testament" and its stories and rituals are adaptations from ancient Babylonian and Canaanite mythology?
"Conservative" apologeticists like Fr. Peter Stravinskas are higher critics and actually use the JEPD theory of the opening of Genesis in order to discredit sola scriptura. In fact, some Catholics (perhaps most?) seem to be unable to tell the difference between sola scriptura and Biblical inerrancy, and invoke the "mistakes" and "errors" in the Bible in order to illustrate the need for the magisterium.
But since most posters on this thread actually seem to regard the Fundamentalist's inability to understand as amusing (and goodness knows, Catholics are too good to actually lower themselves to the level of a Baptist and actually proselytize someone), there is little use in my continuing to say anything here.
Other than I've lost an awful lot of the respect I used to have for you.