I mean that there is a strong contingent on FR that I think would be happy to see Catholics treated the way the the Afghans are treating that Christian convert.
Anti-Catholicism seems to be one of the most common themes on FR lately.
“On Jan. 22, 1998, when [Pope Benedict XVI] was still a cardinal and the grand Inquisitor (yes!) of the Roman Catholic Church, he declared that their archives (4,500 large volumes) indicate a death toll of 25 million killed by the Catholic Church for being ‘heretics.’ And likely two-thirds of the original volumes are lost….”
Nothing like blood libel to get the boys in the white sheets all excited.
Some Mormons have the same complaint as do some Scientologists as do some Protestants as do some Jewish posters as do some preterists as do some atheists and so on.
We will not allow the assembly to be disturbed on devotional threads and those which are like church services – such as the daily mass readings.
But threads like this one are a town square or liberty tree, so every poster is free to argue the subject at hand. As long as the statements are not personal attacks of another poster, obscene, hateful, anti-Semitic or racist - issues can be raised for the next guy to knock down, like piñatas.
This thread (so far) is a great example of how assertions may be made and countered for the edification and amusement of the general forum.
The posters here – both by what they say and how they say it – are living testimonies of their own confessions. I would that all posters, when suffering ridicule and contempt for what or Whom they believe, would approach the town square as an opportunity.
Seemingly ludicrous assertions should be questioned regardless of the asserter's affiliation.
That is Ad Hominem cloaked within a Straw-Man argument.
You can do better than that. Right?
I seriosuly doubt that anyone on FR wishes to treat Catholics the same way that the Afghans are treating the Christian convert.
Ant-Catholicism?
I am hardly anti-Catholic, though I do disagree with them on some things.
Calling another person Anti-Catholic when they are far from it is theatrics, Ad Hominem, and dull and boring rhetoric.
I love Catholicism by what it leant me in coming to Judaism. Though it would seem more difficult for one relatively unschooled in Catholic theology to see it for so many of the pantywaste clergy fluttering therein.
That's a very bigoted remark. Why would you even think other Freepers would want Catholics dead????