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The fact is, ZC, the circle of fundamentalist Protestants on FR has been pretty unrelentingly nasty to Catholics on FR for the past decade - and they seem to especially delight in pushing the buttons of Catholics in a deliberately trolling fashion.

It's a good thing that Catholics never push Fundamentalists' buttons, say, by constantly defending evolution and restricting Biblical inerrancy while flaunting every alleged post-Biblical supernatural phenomenon in history. Or (say again) by calling them "Cletus," "Billy Bob's Glory Barn," and "brain dead bibliolators" while swooning at the "simple childlike faith" of illiterate peasants who believe some saint lives in a local well. Nope, no button-pushing there.

If all rural Bible Christians in the US behaved as they do, they would deserve to be a reviled minority.

So . . . condemning Protestantism from the Right is a no-no for Catholics? It can only be condemned in the vocabulary of an Ivy League liberal?

It's a good thing that Catholics never push Fundamentalists' buttons, say, by constantly defending evolution

While there are plenty of self-identified Catholics on FR who buy into evolution, I don't really know of any who see it as a defining issue: i.e. "if you don't believe this silly notion then you cannot be considered a Christian."

And there are plenty of Protestants on FR who buy into it as well.

Or (say again) by calling them "Cletus," "Billy Bob's Glory Barn," and "brain dead bibliolators" while swooning at the "simple childlike faith" of illiterate peasants who believe some saint lives in a local well.

I rarely see a thread that begins with such epithets - what I see are threads that begin as an insulting challenge to Catholicism and then some Catholic posters, forgetting their obligation under Matthew 5:44, indulging in equally disedifying stupid taunts of the kind you mention.

And I know that you've definitely noticed that there is a mutual contempt here between urban FReepers and rural FReepers that goes beyond religion.

So . . . condemning Protestantism from the Right is a no-no for Catholics? It can only be condemned in the vocabulary of an Ivy League liberal?

Catholics should not be in the business of condemning Protestantism - for the reasons that (1) it's not a particularly Christian attitude to adopt and (2) there is much of value to be found in Protestantism despite its fatal flaws - no matter how much FR Protestants tempt us to throw the baby out with the bathwater.