[Conservative til I die]

That's right. This started out as a thread of adoration, and about the inclusion of certain protestants who don't find the leadership he brought in the "do-it-yourself" protestant world. The attackers immediately started coming in over the walls. TF reminds me of the deathrats.

Because if they didn't attack us, the Pope, our beliefs, and our Church, they'd have nothing in their faith. Do you really ever hear Fundamentalists talking about charity, good works, things like that? This is what happens when you don't have saints to look up to and believe all you have to do is say "I believe" and you're saved forever and ever. It leaves you isolated, with absolutely nothing to do religiously, so a boogeyman has to be found.

[FreedomCalls]

Do you really ever hear Fundamentalists talking about charity, good works, things like that?

All the time.

NORFOLK, Va. (ELCA) -- The Association of Lutheran Social Ministry Organizations (ALSMO) has set the stage to take its place alongside Catholic Charities U.S.A. as the largest charity in the country. The ALSMO annual meeting here April 26 unanimously approved a "strategic alliance" of more than 250 Lutheran social ministry organizations across the United States and Caribbean with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS).

In 1995 about 89,000 volunteers helped 83,000 employees serve 1,763,000 people in non-residential services and 106,000 in residential services, including 20,000 elderly in independent living and 43,000 elderly in nursing facilities. The combined income of the Lutheran social ministries was $2.4 billion and expenses were $2.3 billion.

For comparison, Catholic Charities USA reported total income of $1.93 billion and expenses of $1.86 billion in 1994.

[FreedomCalls]

And that's just one protestant denomination. There are 26,999 others (using your figures).