“I have my opinions and I voice them. “
I don’t question your inclination to voicing your opinions about Catholicism and even Protestantism. However, your religion limits you in interpreting what your religious leaders have decided it all means.
You are quite correct that it isn’t about tolerance - or being tolerant - Catholic leadership has only fairly recently come to the conclusion (from a practical standpoint) that Protestants had it right in America - that religious tolerance is a virtue when creating a God-fearing land. When absolute power is exercised, it corrupts absolutely - which is why it all fell apart during the Reformation, and why it will never be put back together again, short of direct intervention from God - and it is not obvious today that a divinely reunited church would be lead from Rome.
Rome has proven time and again that it is not to be trusted. While modern Catholic laity I think sincerely tries to carry on the legacy of Christ, the leadership/bureaucracy of the Catholic church fails to have the same commitment.
You do not demonstrate the same understanding of your Protestant brethren, because you are not religiously tolerant, as you have expressed. You are not to be blamed. You, and many on this board, cannot quite reconcile being Catholic and being an American. Hence the thread implying that there will be a “next” America and your view that if there is, Catholics should manipulate it to their sole advantage if they can.
Barbaric, indeed.
placemarker
I don't think it's quite so. To tolerate does not mean to agree. I tolerate the Protestant life around me; moreover, I vastly prefer it to the neo-pagan self-indulged yahoos that have taken over the commanding heights in this country. I do however know that Protestantism is a error -- a counterscriptural heresy.
Due to its foundational errors, Protestantism was not able to maintain the beautiful America it created. One by one, traditional Protestant denominations are snuffed out and go over to the dark side, often in the name of "tolerance". The left no longer fears the Protestants; it knows from experience that they can be rolled over. So America needs a renewal. It is true religion that renews. Catholicism is true religion. It will renew.
it will never be put back together again
The prospects of reunification are great for all authentic Christian Churches, best we had in centuries. It is quite possible that the Orthodox and the Catholics will reunite within a generation or two; there is plenty of goodwill on the side of Rome and there has been for quite some time. Now we see a warm sisterly response form the Orthodox Churches. That is not surprising: we share the same theology and the same view on the world outside of the Church. We are natural political allies. Likewise, many pre-Chalcedon Churches seek to mend the old rift and find their place in either communion with Rome or with one or another Orthodox Church. While the Protestant world is dissipating, the Catholic world is consolidating. There is a hand of God in that.