What????
Them Whores of Babylon ain't the ONLY ones HATED!!!
It is acceptable to be prejudiced against ANY Christian denomination.
bfl
What a load of crap.
I used to really like Walid, read his site regularly, but lately he’s been off his med’s. All true believers, the Bible says, shall suffer persecution in this world if we are standing for the Faith, not living a compromised life and are faithfully looking for opportunities to share what Christ has done in our life/lives. Walid’s mother was Catholic and I understand that he has decided to join the Catholic Church (can’t remember how long ago that’s been). If that’s where he feel the Lord would have him minister, so be it. But he can’t be mad at the world if people criticize legitimate issues (pedophile priests, promotion of global warming, etc.) that they disagree with or if they have doctrinal disagreements as well. If my Baptist pastor suddenly ran off with a teenage boy, left his 2 kids and wife, cleaned out the benevolence fund, sold the church bus and stated that Jesus was not really virgin born after all, I’m not going to have kind things to say about him. Westboro Baptist Church anyone?
I don’t know NKP.
Evangelicals are hated and ridiculed.
White men are ridiculed.
Couples who have more than 3 kids are ridiculed.
**Slandering Catholics is the ONLY accepted prejudice in America. **
Quite apparent here and elsewhere.
Not exactly true. We can also ridicule fundamentalists, fat people, those with ancestors who fought for the South, and anything moral and wholesome.
Awwww, poor babies.
“Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I’m going to go eat worms.” - Catholic Dude
Catholic girls start much too late
Excellent essay. True. All the bluster about freedom from religion and Bible-free public schools are triggered by one thing: fear of Catholicism.
It is also true that no one is saved outside the church, just as no animal was saved outside of Noah’s ark.
America’s biggest virtue is a warm hearted welcoming on inclusiveness. As as result, the exclusivity of Catholicism is repulsive to big hearted Americans.
I say, Get over it. Catholicism is analogous to Noah’s ark, according to St. Peter and St. Thomas. The Lord is King, let the earth rejoice, and always place flowers on an altar for Mary, since one day of her suffering was more intense than all others’ sufferings combined. Poor lady. She suffers today because people reject Noah, reject St. Peter, reject St. Thomas, reject her, reject true freedom and reject the King of Kings.
Ok. I shall step off my soap box.
Plenty of non-Catholics have been hated and are still hated for their faith. I’ve experienced it personally. Imagine how lovely it is at a family gathering to be called “that d@mn Baptist” by my Catholic relatives. Or have my evangelistic efforts in high school curtailed by a secularist principal. There’s more, but I’m certainly not alone. Jack Phillips, the Chrisitian man in Colorado who is being hounded out of his business making cakes because he won’t compromise on gay marriage, attends a Southern Baptist church.
So the idea that Catholics are the only ones being picked on is false on its face. I knew some Jehovah’s Witnesses who felt the same way about their faith. I don’t agree with either Catholics or JWs on a number of extremely important issues. But it would be just crazy to imagine that militant secularists, Muslims, and other such outfits would be friendly to any Jews or Christians or any of their offshoots. They hate all of us without distinction. That’s just the way it is, and if Shoebat can’t accept that, he’s just not living in the real world.
BTW, I know how the persecution game works. I learned it from the JWs. A group claims the mantle of persecution as a sign they are the one true group against all others. But it doesn’t work, because Satan isn’t working against particular denominations. He’s working to make the exercise of any faith in God impossible. There are no denominational boundaries in the spiritual world.
BTW, posting a thread like this that seems perfectly suited to inciting a fight between evangelicals and Catholics is probably counter to godly and thoughtful conversation, and is also probably a violation of the anti-flame-baiting policy recently instituted by Jim Robinson. If I am wrong about that, I submit to the judgment of those who have the rule here. But that is my opinion nonetheless.
Peace,
SR
It still happens here on FR!
Them Whores of Babylon ain't the ONLY ones HATED!!!
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After the pope’s pro-illegal, “green”, anti-income equality visit to the US next fall, this issue may grow worse.
The only acceptable prejudice is that against poor rural (white) Fundamentalist Protestants, particularly from the Southeastern United States.
Catholics have the "Democrat urban immigrant minority group" thing going for them. They can always invoke NINA and "nativism." In fact, anti-Catholic liberals will actually defend Catholicism if some hapless Fundamentalist Protestant happens to disagree with it or criticize it in any way . . . even for invoking its history of persecution of others, which liberals do all the time.
I wish Catholics would stop making this blatantly false claim.
To everyone:
While you sit at your keyboards and dissect the subtleties of the meanings of words, orphans hunger, widows hurt, prisoners languish, and the sick suffer and die alone.
Shame on all of us for our pride and vanity.
-Sol David
You can hate any Christian organization except black churches.
“Catholics are legalists,” Catholics believe they have to "do" penance and such to maintain salvation after sins. They "have" to be at church or that's a sin as noted by one poster. As one article noted, "it's hard to be a catholic."
“the Pope kissed the Quran,” Of which there is documentation.
“they worship Mary,”
The statues, the prayers to Mary, the kneeling before the statues of Mary, the false teachings elevating Mary, Mariology. Some schools have programs devoted to the study of Mary offering a Certificate in Marian Studies, etc....Yes...there is worship of Mary.
“they pray to saints” … As documented and noted on these discussion boards and through catholic writings.
Since then, so much has changed -- Catholics, America, and all the various groups aren't what they once were. The divide between Catholics and Protestants has narrowed, while divisions between other groups have widened or remained the same. One thing Viereck was getting at back then was that prejudices didn't necessarily all run one way, people who lacked one set of prejudices might well have another.