I also have thought that many times and I agree.
Yes, the bigotry does truly exist; in fact, I do believe it often is actually hatred.
There really isn't a difference.
I've been there. I used to react to Catholicism with visceral hatred. We must remember that this was promised to us.
I have recently been characterized as patting myself on the back. Very well. I am blessed to be given the chance to suffer insult and slander for the Body of Christ.
Now may Christ give me further graces that I may never take my eyes off him and respond to the falsehood and gratuitous slur NOT with a return in kind -- as I have too often done -- but in the Love who has saved us.
The crypto-Gnostic notion that everything was given and worked out to the minutest degree before the closing of the canon leads to the misconception that there was nothing left to unfold.
But a millennium and a half pass and then, suddenly Luther says this, Calvin that, Zwingli something else, Arminius something else again, and then after there was silence for the space of a half hour -- or maybe a few hundred years -- Darby and Scofield unpack the distillation of all truth less than 200 years ago.
All these hundreds of years for the Scofield Baptists to surface (from the strangely undocumented continual existence from the time that Jesus came to the Jordan) while the Catholic Church is derogated for being dilatory in articulating the Trinity.
It's a tough sell.