Excellent posts.....
Though I must admit, conducted in the "vulgar" English language, which given it's own powers and scope of possibility for expression, can be among the most vulgar.
I suppose I should now brace myself for impact? Naah, the "virtual ignore" button has been pressed.
Excuses like a blanket, crudely worn to ward off the cold...and give one room to continue spewing on and on about "protestant bigots" as if doing so were as magic slippers to transport them back to some fantasy-Kansas, where their own (spiritual) relations are filled only with the warmest of loves, having never erred in the slightest, concerning even the love of God Himself.
Not that I'm pretending that I have not...but that's part of the point. I don't lay claim to personal perfection. A willingness to be honest must suffice.