Pictures of the truth. As Mad Dawg points out, we need to be careful with out imagery. Although many here wouldn’t believe a ‘filthy papist’ like Mad Dawg could EVER get anything right. I’m kind of surprised myself! ;>)
Right or wrong, I see a relative newcomer using an offensive term with the implication that this is what Protestants call you.
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Feelthy Papist (please note that while a lot of non-Catholics on this thread refuse to give us the name we think is proper to us, while many more persistently charge us with believing things we do not believe and doing things we do not do, nevertheless they don't actually call us "feelthy Papists," at least not to our faces, though they find many other terms and ways to express contempt and hostility.
-- You dispute that?
I am told I have to have someone to corroborate MY seeing something 40 years ago?
The normal person of responsibility checks things out and acknowledges where assertions might be less than slam dunks. But here all the old myths are pulled out of the attic -- like the genius who suggested that Dominic was a cruel inquisitor though the Inquisition didn't get going until decades after Dominic had entered the larger life. There's not even the least effort to verify the charge before it is hurled, yet I am supposed to think there is no hostility and contempt?
I think if one and the same person makes two contradictory charges with equal aggression, a number of conclusions can be immediately drawn: First, the person is looking for any old stick, since the object is to beat the dog. That is, making an accusation against a Catholic is far more important than seeing if the accusation makes sense or has any basis in reality.
And then there's the general lack of courtesy, of which this thread is an example. Really. As I have said more than once, if I wanted to get all fussy, I could complain about the names "Holiness," "Baptist," "Presbyterian," "Episcopal," and "Orthodox." Are "Orthodox," "holiness" or "Apostolic" any less general than "Catholic"? But I already have a life of which being outraged at people who disagree with me about religion is not a huge part.
I could go on. My noting hostility and contempt is not projection, it is a conclusion reluctantly drawn from observation.
Note: That I am not claiming particular virtue for all on our side. Some of us also seem to have gone over to the dark side of the force and seem to fight not for resolution but simply to express hostility.
And I really don't care who started it.