Well, I don't think I was quite like that. I thought born again Christians were wrong, and I had a certain amount of animosity toward them, but it wasn't all consuming to me.
This was many moons ago, like back in the 60s, however. I went to a Catholic grade school, and high school, so I was insulated from others. Besides, all I really cared about, was playing hockey and baseball. I don't really recall for sure, if I ever even had a conversation with any of them.
When I got into the Air Force, I had pretty much given up on anything spiritual, till I ran into several Airmen, that were really clean livers, so I was curious, and listened to them.
Were you a hypocrite who demanded respect from Protestants while refusing to give any in return? That's what we deal with here
Well, I don't think I was quite like that. I thought born again Christians were wrong, and I had a certain amount of animosity toward them, but it wasn't all consuming to me.
You know, even at my most "fundamental" I always had a certain respect for the ancient churches. I found out they not only didn't return the favor, but spent all their time attacking Fundamentalist Protestantism almost to the exclusion of anything else.
Sheesh. I couldn't pick up a Liguorian or a Catholic Digest or one of the publications in the orbit of the Our Sunday Visitor without reading attacks on Biblical inerrancy, on the historicity of Genesis, on Jonah's fish, etc. They attacked Jonah's fish more often than they attacked abortion!
It's a sad thing that they've allowed their ethno-cultural prejudices to determine so many of their positions. I find it difficult now to have any respect for them at all, especially when they attack the "liturgical poverty" of Fundamentalists when they spent two thousand years trying to destroy the practice of Judaism (because it was "dead and faithless;" does that sound familiar???).