It’s part of the “drive them nuts” strategy: not engaging in actual discourse as much as attempting to, yes, push buttons and otherwise drive Catholics off.
Naw. Most of us enjoy energetic discourse. You think we’d enjoy pontificating to our mirrors or the choir?
It’s more fun to keep those deeply entrenched in deep and hyper-narrow channels of thought and fantasies about reality, around.
Somewhat akin to watching critters in a maze in a psych lab.
Trouble is, this maze is of THEIR OWN creation.
However, for those determined to try and remake FR in their own exclusisionist image . . . where their construction on reality is the only one tolerated remotely charitably and with full privileges . . . perhaps a more comfortable venue would be better for their blood pressure.
When the kitchen one has made begins to get too hot because, horror of horrors, it’s used for C O O K I N G . . . maybe it is time to take to the pool, instead.
Besides, if a thin-skin really is a part of the Vatican prescribed uniform of the day—as so often seems to be the case . . . wouldn’t Prottys be heretical to try and prevent RC’s from running screaming from the kitchen?