Jesus and His Church can take care of themselves. You've done nothing to me, personally, which requires my forgiveness. However, the trashing that is done on here is frequent and direct. Hardly a day goes by without some one of you eager beavers pointing out the "evil" of the Catholic Church. We simply try to point out what you have gotten wrong... and it is quite a bit.
"There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church — which is, of course, quite a different thing."
-- Archbishop Futon Sheen
Perhaps you failed to notice that this thread is trashing "Protestants" and the Reformation - something that hardly a day goes by where your OWN group of eager-beavers point out the "evils" of anyone who isn't a Roman Catholic (and even some Catholics get trashed!) and how the Roman Catholic church is "THE one true church Jesus established" and anyone else is out of luck. Do you not read the myriad threads posted by your "side"?
If non-Catholic Christians believe that we ought to defend what we believe against those who insist we are wrong and they are right because their church says they are, then why would you begrudge that? Is not Free Republic open to ALL? Should it be open season on everyone BUT Roman Catholicism? I think there are plenty of Roman Catholic websites represented on the internet already. There certainly are regular Catholic Caucus threads where you can be shielded from dissenting views if it bothers you that much.
Had the author of this thread simply posted the same thoughts about forgiveness and the "Lord's Prayer" and left out the gratuitous Protestant bashing, there wouldn't be any uproar. Instead, what is coming across is the inability of modern Roman Catholics to forgive something that happened five hundred years ago and to which they STILL blame people who had nothing to do with it. Forgive and you shall be forgiven.