I didn't say it was aimed at me. Relax. I have no problem explaining why I disagree with some Catholic dogmas. But there sure are plenty of Freeper Catholics who take it personally when someone does which is why I question the motive for posting a thread like this which attacks Protestants for rejecting Mary's sinlessness. There have been numerous threads where raging flame wars break out and the subject of Mary seems to bring out the worst.
Newman's condescension and condemnation are pretty blatant in the ending paragraph of the OP:
Newman's masterpiece concludes: “I say it distinctly – there may be many excuses at the last day, good and bad, for not being Catholics; one I cannot conceive: ‘O Lord, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was so derogatory to Thy grace, so inconsistent with Thy Passion, so at variance with Thy word in Genesis and the Apocalypse, so unlike the teaching of Thy first Saints and Martyrs, as to give me a right to reject it at all risks, and Thy Church for teaching it. It is a doctrine as to which my private judgment is fully justified in opposing the Church's judgment. And this is my plea for living and dying a Protestant.’”
I've yet to see a Religion Forum thread - and I've been here since 2006 - on the subject of the Immaculate Conception that remained respectful. That's too bad.