[Judith Anne]

Some actually believe that Catholics are incapable of original thought and do not have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit like Protestants do. They believe that our memories and cognitive processes are scrubbed during infant baptism and that we receive our programming and the next weeks orders from memory devices disguised as Communion wafers administered by "another Christ". I suppose that when one is incapable of rational thought it is likely that they presume everyone else is similarly incapable.

I've written elsewhere that if all I had to go on were the so-called Pauline Epistles, I wouldn't care for anything about Christianity. I read the Bible from cover to cover, several editions several times, and it was the four gospels that brought me to Christ.

[Judith Anne]

By the way, as far as I recall, the only two disciples of the twelve that St. Paul mentions are Sts. Peter and John. Maybe the others didn’t like him. Maybe with good reason. After all, they were Jews, they knew Jesus Christ personally, and St. Paul did not. Maybe they thought he was a mental case too.