Catholics have consistently been making fun of Protestants for claiming to have a personal relationship with Christ.
>> Next thing I know, the argument has been changed to say that Catholics claim that the Protestant’s claim of a personal relationship with God is false and make sport of it.<<
That’s exactly what’s been happening. You haven’t seen the Catholics making fun of the “buddy” relationship of Protestants with the cute yipeoo graphic.
I can only speak for myself.
Protestant’s seem to think that the church interferes with our relationship with Christ, but it doesn’t.
Some Catholics may think that protestants can be too casual about their relationship with Christ. In other words, it can seem that reverence for who and what Jesus is, is not present.
I don’t usually get into the ridicule. To me it serves no purpose but to further divide us.
I will say that I find it a bit hypocritical for a protestant to complain if a Catholic makes fun of them.
I could point to evidence in this thread that most protestants have no problem making fun of Catholics.