While I understand your frustration (as one who also rejects the Qaraite/Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura), I must nonetheless ask why you find it necessary to resort to the old liberal charge of the "ignorant" (and, I assume, inbred) "Protestant" in order to make your point. Considering the place of this trope in liberal culture, I really think it should be banned from this site (though that isn't my decision to make).
Really, Vlad, to FReeper Protestants ever insult Catholics as ignorant and stupid? And considering the fact that the bulk of the Catholic Church's membership over the centuries has been simple illiterate peasants, they could certainly make this charge if they chose to, couldn't they? Then of course Catholic FReepers would whine about the attack on simple people by highfalutin' Protestant intellectuals.
Catholics really need to make up their minds if they are a church of geniuses and intellectuals or of people of every shade of mental giftedness. If the latter, the attacks on Protestants for being "stupid" or of low intelligence should really stop.
You're not winning any friends doing this, Vlad. I know that were I still Catholic I would feel terribly embarrassed (as well as unwelcome and a traitor to my people) by such behavior.
“Really, Vlad, to FReeper Protestants ever insult Catholics as ignorant and stupid?”
Yes, and much worse. We’ve been called everything in the book - including servants of Satan, idolaters, perverts, child molesters, ignorant, stupid, morons, etc.
“You’re not winning any friends doing this, Vlad.”
That isn’t my goal.
“I know that were I still Catholic I would feel terribly embarrassed (as well as unwelcome and a traitor to my people) by such behavior.”
Your feelings do not concern me.