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Exactly! They would have the Bible they're reading from unless some courageous monks and religious saved their copies from the destruction at the end of the Roman Empire and spent their time copying them for hundreds of years until the invention of the printing press.

I will go further in saying that there shouldn't have to be any animosity between the evangelicals and the church-going Catholics. It is from these congregations that the bulk of the people involved in the defense of the American Founding and our God-given liberties come from. If it weren't for Jack Chick and his fellow-travelers, and some Catholics, we would be closer allies, especially in the culture war over abortion and homosexuality.

As William F. Buckley stated in God and Man at Yale 50 years ago, it is mainly the elite from the Northeastern mainline White Anglo-Saxon Protestant churches that have ABANDONED the defense of American liberties. This assault didn't start in the 1960's. It started much earlier in the 20th Century. "Buckley's attackers thus saw themselves as custodians of a great tradition; their religion was liberal Protestant, their outlook 'modern,' and their sensibility elitist. To them, Roman Catholicism, like Evangelical Protestantism, was the religion of the lower classes - publicly "tolerated" (my comment: hardly so today) but privately derided (Taken from Austin W. Bramwell's article "The Revolt Against the Establishment: God and Man at Yale at 50" in the Fall 2001 issue of the Intercollegiate Review, printed by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute)."