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
But remember the problem was in posting anti-Catholic things EVERY day.
Yes, it’s true that open prejudice and hostility to all forms of Christianity has broken out in this country. It’s horrible, it’s frightening and I don’t know when it will stop. That said, historically, it is true that anti-Catholicism was and is still tolerated in this country. I mean, an entire political party was founded around it, lol.
I liked your post, btw.