[Lorica]

In order to wrap their heads around it, they need to imagine it as some sort of monolithic conspiracy like the Masons or the Illuminati when nothing could be further from the truth.

Ha! Obviously, you haven't been keeping up with Dan Brown like they have.

Of course, that assumes that they are really trying to understand it at all. If you ask me, some of them are here only to keep Catholics and Protestants at each others' throats so that they don't unite behind common political agendas that they agree on.

There are only a handful of them...I think they drove off a lot of the more thoughtful non-Catholics who didn't share their antagonism.

[Running On Empty]

“There are only a handful of them. I think they drove off a lot of the more thoughtful non-Catholics who didn’t share their antagonism”.

I also think this has happened. And it seems to be much more noticeable in the recent two years. Many of the anti-Catholic threads are now pretty much dominated by that handful of posters.

I don’t think that antagonistic attitude will get many followers

“We avoid giving anyone offense so that our ministry may not be blamed” 2Cor:6:3

A good scriptural admonition to consider.