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.
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."
I’m in the early stages of reeling in a family of Baptists who are horrified that suddenly the Baptist Churches in town are going on an Anti-Catholic kick.