Ok.
“The US laws on abortion are about as barbaric as it gets”
Why doesn’t the Catholic Church, since is so principled religiously on the issue excommunicate democrats that support abortion? I know what they say, and I know what they do.
You act as if it is exclusively a Catholic issue.
“Religious tolerance is a good thing, and the Catholics tolerate Protestants “
You don’t have a choice. This is America. Our Protestant forefathers made sure of that.
“You are probably confusing barbarity with poverty, judging by your previous posts to me.”
No, you are confusing Acapulco with the real Mexico. They are replete with both poverty and barbarism if you had spent any time there, or near the border, you’d know this.
“well-defined dogmatic beliefs that allow us to say with precision what is and what is not Catholic”
You decide as a religion how you worship - that’s how it works.
“That is because we care for the truth. The Protestants don’t seem to.”
No. You care for what is Catholic. Fine. Protestants are not a monolithic group. If you actually opened your eyes, you’d see this obvious fact. I don’t call it good or bad - it just is. You’d have trouble pointing out the difference between some Protestant services and Catholic ones. Some Protestant services you might think are totally insane, and some of them are crazy to most other Protestants. Yet you think you can lump them all into one group, judge it, and then sanctimoniously declare them deficient. You’re free to do that, of course, but it is disturbingly ignorant - and un-american to do so.
I very much think that the Church should excommunicate the pro-abort Catholics. This is why I continually call for the Holy Inquisition in America, and get gasps and howls from the Freeper audience.
As to barbarity, I picked essentuial criteria. I know that Mexico is not perfect.
On substantive differences between Catholics and the Protestants read around, for example, this discussion on the essence of the Eucharist, or the role of priests. That the Protestants are all over the map between themselves I do not dispute, — it is in fact a prima facie evidence that they are not lead by the Holy Spirit.