[Desdemona]

It's not so much the teetotaling, it's that evangelicals claim that Catholics don't read the Bible, yet, most Catholics know the Wedding at Cana was the first miracle. Well, that and the occational martini won't hurt.

I've heard Revelation is not in the Catholic Bible, Catholics don't understand the numbers in the Bible. Not many evangelicals can name all twelve apostles (use the word BAPTISM: B, Bartholomew; A, Andrew; P, (Simon)Peter, Philip; T, Thomas, Jude Thaddeus; I (in Latin J is I), James the Greater, John, James the Lesser, Judas Iscariot; S, Simon; M, Matthew). And then there's speaking in tongues...but that's another story.

I've gotten into a lot of fights with evangelicals. Every February I have to explain Mardi Gras at least once. The concept of the Immaculate Conception. Oh, the list goes on.

[Frumanchu]

Sadly, from a Protestant point of view I have to agree with you and even admit guilt at times for the same. Just as there are many Catholics who poorly represent Catholicism, there are many Protestants who do the same. There are points of doctrine in the RCC which I do not at all agree with, but I would never be so prideful or arrogant as to say that one is not saved because they are Catholic. However, I also would affirm that one is not saved because they are Catholic (I hope you catch the double-meaning there). There are many things about most Protestant denominations that I disagree with just as firmly as some points of Catholic doctrine.

[RobbyS]

Well, most Catholics don't read the Bible, although, truth be told, neither do most Evangelicals. At least they don't have the deep knowledge of it that many Protestants did a hundred years ago. But what separates us is their belief that the Bible is the whole of the Christian faith. Never mind that few Christians ever saw a complete Bible until the Middle Ages.