Were you a hypocrite who demanded respect from Protestants while refusing to give any in return? That's what we deal with here
Well, I don't think I was quite like that. I thought born again Christians were wrong, and I had a certain amount of animosity toward them, but it wasn't all consuming to me.
You know, even at my most "fundamental" I always had a certain respect for the ancient churches. I found out they not only didn't return the favor, but spent all their time attacking Fundamentalist Protestantism almost to the exclusion of anything else.
Sheesh. I couldn't pick up a Liguorian or a Catholic Digest or one of the publications in the orbit of the Our Sunday Visitor without reading attacks on Biblical inerrancy, on the historicity of Genesis, on Jonah's fish, etc. They attacked Jonah's fish more often than they attacked abortion!
It's a sad thing that they've allowed their ethno-cultural prejudices to determine so many of their positions. I find it difficult now to have any respect for them at all, especially when they attack the "liturgical poverty" of Fundamentalists when they spent two thousand years trying to destroy the practice of Judaism (because it was "dead and faithless;" does that sound familiar???).
Yes, a little, maybe. As I said, I went to catholic schools, all through high school, and did not have any contact with born again Christians, plus, all I wanted to do, was play sports, so spiritual issues didn't interest me much, until I got to to the Air Force.
Wait till you have to deal with the Iglesia ni Cristo. You haven't seen hate and discontent, till you have dealt with them. They make those you describe, look like pikers. The Iglesia ni Cristo, is a cult, with a capital C.
By the way, I forgot to mention, one priest, in our Catholic religion class, told us, that that the sin of Adam, was sexual in nature, and the Flood of Noah, was only a small local Flood. I doubt there are many priests who teach that, but at least he did. Weird, huh?