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Is Anti-Catholicism Dead? (Ques. Proposed by NY Times)
NY Times City Room Blog ^
| 7/23/2008
| Sewell Chan
Posted on 07/23/2008 2:47:21 PM PDT by Pyro7480
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To: Tax-chick
> Some people just have a need to be “against.”
AMEN. It’s like they’re teenagers who never grew up.
I’m reminded of a video I saw a while back: it was an aging “Diamond” David Lee Roth trying to do the rock ‘n roll thing at a night club. Spandex and all. It just didn’t work!
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posted on
07/24/2008 6:43:10 AM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: DieHard the Hunter
My teenagers think David Lee Roth is hysterical.
Maybe there’s a specific place in God’s plan for the obsessively oppositional. However, it seems very stressful to me.
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posted on
07/24/2008 6:47:38 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Tax-chick's House of Herpets. Support your local reptile vet!)
Comment #103 Removed by Moderator
To: Mrs. Don-o
It is far more common, at least in FR fora, for Catholics to be mocked with the label of Universalism That has certainly been my experience. Observing that God decides who goes to Heaven and who goes to Hell seems to indicate, for some, that one is not a Christian.
Oh, well, I say. Whatever's fun for them ...
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posted on
07/24/2008 6:59:01 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
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To: Always Right
What is funny about that is Catholics have no problem telling Protestants they are going to hell because they don't belong to 'The Church', I challenge you to find one thread posted by a Catholic that staes that premise. You'll have a hard time even finding a single post.
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posted on
07/24/2008 7:04:44 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
(Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
To: NYer; AnAmericanMother
Part of Maria Monk’s lies are still whispered today.... that is until the scandal.
Cool vestments.
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posted on
07/24/2008 7:14:44 AM PDT
by
Jaded
(Does it really need a sarcasm tag?)
To: DieHard the Hunter
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posted on
07/24/2008 7:16:42 AM PDT
by
Radl
To: Petronski
Wait, let me check.... Yep. Definitely a he.
LOL...glad to hear it.
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posted on
07/24/2008 7:18:39 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
(Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
To: big'ol_freeper
My first exposure to anti-Catholic bigotry came from a
Baptist. I remember it like it was yesterday, I was almost 6 and we were visiting relatives. My uncle told my father very angrily that all Catholics were going to hell. My father quietly disagreed with him and changed the subject but I was scandalized.
After we left I asked my father why he had just basically let it go and he said it wasn’t worth arguing with him but I remember going on about it for a while.
I do wonder why I was so upset because we weren’t Catholic. Maybe the Holy Spirit was already working in my life at that young age but it still took 40 yrs for me to listen.
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posted on
07/24/2008 7:32:37 AM PDT
by
tiki
(True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
To: pgkdan
The Religious Right actually has quite a large number of Catholics in its ranks, ya know. But I get what you're saying. Sure, the Evangelicals and Fundamentalists are hated by the leftist elites, too. But they're not
feared by them in the same way Catholicism is. Most Evangelicals and Fundamentalists are merely considered - rightly or wrongly - as mere annoyances, often bordering on the status of court jester buffoons in their eyes. But Catholicism has "staying power" in addition to its perceived bona fides as a right-wing catalyst and perveyor of theistic extremism. ALso, it undeniably has more "gravitas." Therefore, it must be prioritized as the target to be "stopped" first.
Anti-Catholicism will never "just go away." But it's here with a vengeance for the forseeable future. Some of our own priests haven't exactly helped the cause, lately, but that was just the excuse - the dustgrain, if you will - around which a massive wave of politically correct Anti-Catholicism will coalesce. particularly if the Dems ride an Obama wave toward a congressional super-majority, but the potential scenarios aren't much better if McCain wins. Time to hunker down and ride out the storm!
To: AnAmericanMother
A few of them think that some of the Catholic posters are paid apologists.
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posted on
07/24/2008 7:33:34 AM PDT
by
tiki
(True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
To: Mrs. Don-o
I am double jointed and I don’t kick myself often enough.
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posted on
07/24/2008 7:41:50 AM PDT
by
tiki
(True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
To: tiki
Maybe the Holy Spirit was already working in my life at that young age but it still took 40 yrs for me to listen. You and me both!
I remember instances of anti-Catholic prejudice in my childhood quite clearly. I was an Episcopalian at the time (albeit a very 'high' one) but that and many other things accumulated . . . it took me 40-some odd years too (and very odd years they were!)
"Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake."
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posted on
07/24/2008 7:45:07 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chase, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: tiki
Hey! Where’s my check! Did it get lost in the mail?
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posted on
07/24/2008 7:45:38 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chase, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: AnAmericanMother
I think it may be one of those pyramid things. The #1 apologist gets all the money and then he counts all your posts and whether they really met the all the criteria, I’m sure we’ll all be getting them in the mail soon.
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posted on
07/24/2008 7:55:14 AM PDT
by
tiki
(True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
To: AnAmericanMother
Oh wait, I forgot. You’ll have to put your real name, address and phone number on one of your posts so they can find you, LOL.
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posted on
07/24/2008 7:56:21 AM PDT
by
tiki
(True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
To: tiki
Nah, they can send it through PayPal. No worries.
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posted on
07/24/2008 8:11:01 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chase, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: Always Right
Thank you. You just provided a fine example of the subject of this thread AND what seems to be a typical anti-Catholic move, namely to make a charge for which you adduce no evidence, and leave it to us to prove ourselves innocent.
Thank you for playing our game and for showing that Anti-Catholicism is alive and well on FR.
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posted on
07/24/2008 8:21:06 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(I don't believe in organized religion. I'm a Catholic.)
To: tiki
Great. Catholic Amway.
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posted on
07/24/2008 8:26:06 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chase, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: Radl
> Not even close.
DRAT! We will have to try harder!
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posted on
07/24/2008 8:27:10 AM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
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