“I notice quite often that Catholics seem to have a real animus towards Protestants, even to the point of stating all encompassing broad brush comments about them”
Catholics don’t put down protestants, it’s the other way around. I was baptist for the majority of my life. When I became catholic I heard nothing but putdowns. When I was a baptist I never heard a catholic putting down other religions, only pitting them for not having the fullness of the faith, mostly notably the Eucharist.
Do you read your posts after hitting send?
This is a putdown of protestants by a catholic:
****They think Jesus was lying when he said "this is my body, this is my blood".****
A broadbrush statement that includes all Protestants, posted as if it is a fact
You posted that and now deny anyone ever puts down Protestants when YOU just did.
And it is not true unless it can be proved, I asked you for a link but got none.
So we can put that down as not true.
When I became catholic I heard nothing but putdowns.
Probably your friends trying to get you to keep your close personal relationship with God. (That is if you were a Christian)
"When I was a baptist I never heard a catholic putting down other religions, only pitting (sic) them for not having the fullness of the faith, mostly notably the Eucharist."Fullness of faith used by Catholics means faith in Catholiscism, not faith in God.
If a Christian used that phrase it would mean faith in God and much more.
Christians take communion, and it IS the body and blood of Jesus.
They just don't have a priest, who becomes "another" Jesus and then changes the cracker and wine into Jesus.
Christians don't need the Catholic eucharist.
The pastor, when administering communion, simply says "this IS the body of Christ" and "this IS the blood of Christ" and Jesus takes care of the rest.
Simple like in the first century.
BTW, non Catholics are put down on a daily basis hear at FR by Catholics, and sometimes with threads with articles that diss OTC's...Other Than Catholics.
You wrote, “Catholics don’t put down protestants, it’s the other way around.”
Man, you’re absolutely deceived. All you are doing is damning those who trust in Jesus, who happen not to have “gone home to Rome.” You defame Jesus by saying that only those who have “gone home to Rome” are members of Christ’s church.