It’s conditioned into them. It IS beyond their comprehension.
>>The same goes for Protestants and apostate Catholics.
American Catholics have always had an inferiority complex vis-a-vis the Protestant majority.
And coming from a Protestant background, I can attest that most Protestants are such for kneejerk reasons.
Closed-minded anti-Catholicism is in their blood, and poorly catechized Catholics suck it in and become anti-Catholic themselves. I was raised with it, so if any Catholic on FR has a perspective on it, I do.
My grandmother practically had a heart attack when I became a Catholic, and so did my mother and all of my Protestant relatives.
It’s easier for a Fundamentalist to accept a Catholic converting to the Hare Krishnas than to “gasp” Catholicism.
Many Protestants love anti-Catholicism more than they love Jesus. Hatred of Catholicism is their idol.
Actually, I got free from that conditioning and learned to think for myself.
Whom the Son sets free is free indeed.