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You're proving JR's point about bashing. You're proving my point that there is something going on with Protestants on a deep-down level that they cannot discuss religion without bashing Catholics.

Let's see, a you are drawing a conclusion from a sample of .... one poster. Kind of limited wouldn't you say?

If the Catholic Church didn't exist, would you have anything to talk about?

You know aside from Mom, i haven't seen anyone talking about the Catholic Church. In point of fact, some of us have included the Catholics as a group being oppressed by this recent trend. It isn't that long a thread, look up the posts yourself. FYI, we have been generally refering to Mormons, not Catholics.

(Ignoring the fact that without the Catholic Church there wouldn't be any Christianity today).

Forgive me, this makes your entire post sound a wee bit POT-KETTLE-BLACK.

If you feel the need to check out my credentials, you can talk to Thomas More, Domestic Church, Polycarp, Sarandipity, (hope i spelled you handle correctly Sara!), or Aquinasfan. i really don't need to defend myself on that respect.

If you want to take this question up with Mom, please, be my guest. She's a big girl (that isn't a physical reference Mom, put down that gun!!!). Don't attempt to smear the rest of us on a limited sample. Hopefully we will get the chance to hiss and scratch each other in a more appropriate thread, at a more appropriate time...this is neither.

You're proving JR's point about bashing. You're proving my point that there is something going on with Protestants on a deep-down level that they cannot discuss religion without bashing Catholics.

Let's see, a you are drawing a conclusion from a sample of .... one poster. Kind of limited wouldn't you say?

....No, her post was PROVING my point. My conclusion is based on a couple years of observation of the religious threads. Her post is just one more example. Feel free to disagree, but this is how I see it and nothing you say is really going to convince me otherwise.

If the Catholic Church didn't exist, would you have anything to talk about?

You know aside from Mom, i haven't seen anyone talking about the Catholic Church. In point of fact, some of us have included the Catholics as a group being oppressed by this recent trend. It isn't that long a thread, look up the posts yourself. FYI, we have been generally refering to Mormons, not Catholics.

...I'm not referring to just this thread. This thread is about the religion forums in general, and this is what I am referring to. It's completely relevant to discuss behavior on other threads. If you and a few other kind souls feel that the Catholics are 'persecuted' on the religion threads, thanks for your honesty. But you and the few others that are admitting this are also not the ones on the threads everyday bashing us. What I'm saying is, you're not the problem. It's people like rnmomof7 and quite a few others who I will not name for etiquette's sake who constantly bash and don't see a problem with it. That's really who I'm responding to and about.

Don't attempt to smear the rest of us on a limited sample

I don't feel I'm smearing anyone. I'm making an observation which could be all correct, partially correct, mostly incorrect, or completely incorrect. We're not discussing if 2+2 = 4 or if the sky is blue. These are matters of opinion. Unfortunately, there is a rather loud majority of religiously-inclined Protestants on FR that feel it's their mission in life to piss on ("piss on" being my term for people who basically hijack a thread and change it's topic by provoking others) any Catholic thread with strawmen and prostelytization, even when the thread topic has nothing to do with anything a Protestant would be interested in.

Sorry if you feel that you're being put in the same bag as some of the bigots, but rather than be angry at me, maybe you should reserve a smidgen of anger for your fellow Protestants that wind up making the rest of you look bad via their actions and words? Because honestly, before I came on FR, I was blissfully unaware of the beliefs and attitudes that Protestants hold towards Catholics. The reason I think that a lot of Protestants on FR are bigots is because they're acting like bigots, not because I'm paranoid or hallucinating.