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I'm becoming convinced that a bunch of SSPX, sedevacantists, sundry schismatics and radical "traditionalists" have allied themselves and pounced on the FR religion forum as a soapbox to honk loud, long and often about how only they are The One, True, Holy And Apostolic Catholic Church, not to but at anyone, including obedient Catholics who recognize and submit to the authority of Vatican II. A sect screaming about the invalidity of any other sect than their own while deigning to detect just that behavior in all others, in other words. Fealty to Rome, but only in theory and certainly not that bunch.

That's who is attacking fellow Christians with false accusations and lurid little photos that some dusty, deranged, outré clerical hermit apparently thought appropriate and amusing. Several of them are clearly not even in the United States and have hostility toward it and to us as Americans, and a barely constrained desire for monarchy, under their church perfected in the image of their sect, of course.

There was a time when I supported them in their desire to turn their church around, given the blatant immorality on display with no apparent institutional means of ridding themselves of it, but there has just been too much smearing and false accusation being slung around. I'm beginning to think I was wrong in that support, I'm afraid. Strange times we're living in. Strange people, too.

That's who is attacking fellow Christians with false accusations and lurid little photos that some dusty, deranged, outré clerical hermit apparently thought appropriate and amusing. Several of them are clearly not even in the United States and have hostility toward it and to us as Americans, and a barely constrained desire for monarchy, under their church perfected in the image of their sect, of course.

Actually, at that point, I don't consider that it's *fellow Christians* who are making the attacks.

There are a handful of Catholics who post here who are reasonable and courteous and whom I would definitely conclude have truly put their faith in Christ, in spite of their Catholicism, not because of it.

But then again, they don't resort to infantile, repetitive posting of images and mockery and derision. They are ones with whom you can agree to disagree and at least make some kind of effort to try to understand our objections to Catholicism.