How does quoting Cram "help" you? You just HAD to slip that in there to further disparage "Protestants"? The biography I posted from Wiki says about him that, "At age 18, Cram moved to Boston in 1881 and worked for five years in the architectural office of Rotch & Tilden, after which he left for Rome to study classical architecture. During an 1887 Christmas Eve mass in Rome, he had a dramatic conversion experience. For the rest of his life, he practiced as a fervent Anglo-Catholic who identified as High Church Anglican." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Adams_Cram)
I happen to think he was WAY off base about how he described "Protestant" appreciation of beauty and can opine that his was a biased view based on a preconceived deference for the mystery and wonder he saw in Rome and Roman Catholicism with what he had experienced as a "Protestant" before his "conversion experience" and his love of Gothic Revival architecture. He's entitled to his opinion, but so am I to disagree with his "religious" views about what he thought Protestantism neglected.
That you cannot discuss much of anything on this thread, or others, without labeling opponents as "Protestant anti-Catholics" who lie and are dishonest and asserting anyone who isn't a Catholic is by default a "Protestant", demonstrates an inability to address points respectfully OR honestly. You may view these exchanges as mere sport, but it's better to envision a mission field with readers we may never know are out there and our witness for Christ is what gets communicated way past the minute details of our disagreements. Spiritual pride isn't a positive attribute.
“How does quoting Cram “help” you?”
Cram’s quote shows that even some Protestants realize the destruction that Protestantism has wrought.
“You just HAD to slip that in there to further disparage “Protestants”?”
Actually, if anything is being disparaged, it’s Protestantism. And I see no reason to not point out the truth about it as a philosophy and theology.