My response was "He'll be back" because I felt that if is "conversion" story was as genuine as he says it is -- that is, if the scriptures did begin to come alive to him -- it would be inevitable that he'd return to the Church, despite his currently naive reading of them.
I have been known to occasionally be a bit more sarcastic than that, perhaps not quite as respectful as I should be, but never malevolent or arrogant or ignorant or seething as the attack posts on Catholic threads routinely are.
The biggest challenge for me is defending the Holy Father. I think he is attacked a little less by "Catholic" posters than by anyone else, but not much less.
I’ve been on FR a long time—longer than my sign-up date would indicate. I’ve only been a Catholic for five years, as I was raised Protestant and only very reluctantly came to the conclusion that Catholic doctrine was correct. But long before my conversion, I was embarrassed and shocked by the aggressiveness, hostility, illogic, and contempt my Protestant brethren showed to Catholics. Hardly a way to win souls to a faith.