A sure way to get my eyes to glaze over is to put the word “anti-Catholic” in a story.
Luther was not shy about his views on the matter. It’s not at all surprising that a Lutheran body today would continue this tradition. But what does that matter? The problem with Jeremiah Wright’s church was its *political* views more than its theological ones. Anti-Americanism is a *political* position that you better believe affects the Chief Executive’s policy.
What would a President Bachmann do with this alleged “anti-Catholicism”, eh? Break ties with the Vatican? Sic the Justice Department on the dioceses?
Sorry, I just don’t get the point of Fournier’s argument here.
The left is desperately seeking a means of driving a wedge between Catholics and Protestants. I grew up Methodist in a family mixed with Baptists and Catholics.
I guess those differences never really meant anything to me.
The discussion brings back memories of my youth, and my brothers, spent in a German Lutheran grade school. My church and school were USA oriented but also very anti catholic which had two grade schools in my city. My brother and I were very much into sports like basketball, baseball,and softball. We could barely field a school basketball team for city tournaments, giving up an extra free throw when any one had the fifth or more fouls. For softball my older brother and I joined in with boys from the other two catholic schools because we knew them and played baseball as teammates. The public schools didn’t like the parochial schools. The year our mixed softball team won the city wide tournament the city newspaper covering the games gave particular notice to my brother (he was a very good player) and me. When the principal of our school read about us playing on a team under a Catholic schools name he called us in for a lecture about the wrongs and dangers of our actions. If it had not been for influence by our godparents and others in the church we might have been expelled. Such was the religious relations/differences at the time.