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 ...
I don’t remember Quixote being a lying anti-Catholic bigot.
I’m sure they love ‘christians’ such as the fools from Phelps’ church. People like that aren’t true born again Christians. Liberals hate any people who cling to Christ and the Bible.
Well lots of
reduction absurdum and
gibberish
I think we’re due for some cartoon characters and maybe a harpie stating something like....
“thank you oh dear brother in Christ”
and in about an hour another will come in late to the game and post things discussed back at noon...utterly missing the context of the arguments lol.
Clockwork....of course we’ve already went throug the ad hominem and bait and switch as the script reads.
Thanks for the thoughtfulness
of such an unusually vicious personal assault.
I appreciate the Heavenly points.
It’s also comforting to note the
chronic and wholesale
unmitigated falseness of such accusations.
What makes you think I was referring to you?
The Holy Spirit is the one who convicts us of sin, draws us to Jesus, the One God speaks of in His Word. Not Mary. I know you believe differently and I also know I will not convince you otherwise, so we just need to agree to disagree.
I think The Lord is intent on us ruling and reigning with Him from an inner heart knowing born of impactful experiences.
I would NOT like to be on the lower level of that one! LOL. I’ve seen two seaters before but never a two story one.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
ASSERT TO ONE AND ALL
that you were not . . . and that
“Quixote”
had absolutely nothing to do with me.
PLEASE, PLEASE ASSERT THAT.
I’m sure the Prottys would enjoy the laugh.
Yes necessarily.
If I could double my money...LOL.
What makes you think I was referring to you?
I need you to elaborate to be sure I’m getting your meaning accurately and fully.
I love Christ. I respect His Mother, but I don’t ‘love her’ the way Catholics do. The Saints are good examples but I don’t ‘love them’ either. I don’t ‘love’ any church but the Body of Christ. My works of love have nothing to do with the above. And yet God honors them. Hmmm. How about that?
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
ASSERT TO ONE AND ALL
that you were not . . . and that
“Quixote”
had absolutely nothing to do with me.
PLEASE, PLEASE ASSERT THAT.
I’m sure the Prottys would enjoy the laugh.
Nice to see your reality testing is reasonably healthy and intact.
LOL.
I’ve seen more convincing random-gibberish-generating perl scripts.
“IS ANTI - CATHOLICISM DEAD?”
BWAAAAA LOL
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