As to your...
I get the idea that an awful lot of Catholics are too ignorant of normal Protestant religious discussion to be allowed into it.
All I can say is that I am not ignorant of "normal Protestant religious discussion". I spent a bit of time as a Protestant myself. I have a brother who is a Protestant minister. I consider Protestants, by and large, to be my brothers and sisters in Christ.
But, as to backwards ass bigoted ignorami who call my church ‘The Great Whore,’ an ‘apostate church,’ the ‘anti-Christ,’ and a ‘false cult system’... Well, I have little patience for them.
Which shows the power of persistent posting.
You must have gone back and read all of my posts and saw that I generally defend Catholics, particularly when I'm defending a Protestant preacher's right to use words out of the Bible to describe anything he wishes.
You do realize that the supposed "insults to the church" are not well referenced, and are pulled out of the midst of a far larger body of comment.
Like I said at the beginning, a lot of the anger on your part arises out of the same sort of thing you get from angry young African American militants who don't want to hear "niggardly" because of what it sounds like.
BTW, I don't think the particular version of "The Revelation of St. John" the early church fathers chose was the "correct one". That book should be reassessed ~ if only to get the "whore" part out ~ whacha' say ~ but keep that "beast from the pit" part or we wouldn't be able to talk about the "Hildabeast" ~