Posted on 07/23/2008 2:47:21 PM PDT by Pyro7480
When Gov. Alfred E. Smith ran for president in 1928, his candidacy was derailed in large part by anti-Catholic prejudice. It has been nearly 48 years since John F. Kennedy became the first (and so far only) Roman Catholic president, but experts say that anti-Catholic sentiment — much of it originating in, or as a response to, immigrants in New York — remains an enduring force in American culture.
That was the consensus of a panel assembled at the Museum of the City of New York on Tuesday night to consider the question, “Is Anti-Catholicism Dead?”
...The Rev. Richard John Neuhaus — a leading conservative intellectual, a former Lutheran pastor and the editor of the leading Catholic journal First Things — offered a surprising view on the question.
“To be a Catholic is not to be refused positions of influence in our society,” he said. “Indeed, one of the most acceptable things is to be a bad Catholic, and in the view of many people, the only good Catholic is a bad Catholic.”
...He added that anti-Catholicism was as likely to come from the left — sometimes from commentators who believe that a “threatening theological insurgency is engineered and directed by Catholics,” with evangelical Protestants merely as the movement’s “foot soldiers.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com ...
> Some people just have a need to be “against.”
AMEN. It’s like they’re teenagers who never grew up.
I’m reminded of a video I saw a while back: it was an aging “Diamond” David Lee Roth trying to do the rock ‘n roll thing at a night club. Spandex and all. It just didn’t work!
My teenagers think David Lee Roth is hysterical.
Maybe there’s a specific place in God’s plan for the obsessively oppositional. However, it seems very stressful to me.
That has certainly been my experience. Observing that God decides who goes to Heaven and who goes to Hell seems to indicate, for some, that one is not a Christian.
Oh, well, I say. Whatever's fun for them ...
I challenge you to find one thread posted by a Catholic that staes that premise. You'll have a hard time even finding a single post.
Part of Maria Monk’s lies are still whispered today.... that is until the scandal.
Cool vestments.
Not even close.
Yep. Definitely a he.
LOL...glad to hear it.
My first exposure to anti-Catholic bigotry came from a
Baptist. I remember it like it was yesterday, I was almost 6 and we were visiting relatives. My uncle told my father very angrily that all Catholics were going to hell. My father quietly disagreed with him and changed the subject but I was scandalized.
After we left I asked my father why he had just basically let it go and he said it wasn’t worth arguing with him but I remember going on about it for a while.
I do wonder why I was so upset because we weren’t Catholic. Maybe the Holy Spirit was already working in my life at that young age but it still took 40 yrs for me to listen.
Anti-Catholicism will never "just go away." But it's here with a vengeance for the forseeable future. Some of our own priests haven't exactly helped the cause, lately, but that was just the excuse - the dustgrain, if you will - around which a massive wave of politically correct Anti-Catholicism will coalesce. particularly if the Dems ride an Obama wave toward a congressional super-majority, but the potential scenarios aren't much better if McCain wins. Time to hunker down and ride out the storm!
A few of them think that some of the Catholic posters are paid apologists.
I am double jointed and I don’t kick myself often enough.
You and me both!
I remember instances of anti-Catholic prejudice in my childhood quite clearly. I was an Episcopalian at the time (albeit a very 'high' one) but that and many other things accumulated . . . it took me 40-some odd years too (and very odd years they were!)
"Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake."
Hey! Where’s my check! Did it get lost in the mail?
I think it may be one of those pyramid things. The #1 apologist gets all the money and then he counts all your posts and whether they really met the all the criteria, I’m sure we’ll all be getting them in the mail soon.
Oh wait, I forgot. You’ll have to put your real name, address and phone number on one of your posts so they can find you, LOL.
Nah, they can send it through PayPal. No worries.
Thank you for playing our game and for showing that Anti-Catholicism is alive and well on FR.
> Not even close.
DRAT! We will have to try harder!
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