[Skooz]

Christianity takes a lot of shots--but frankly, the World Council of Churches and the Prot mainliners don't take NEAR the amount that the Catholics (e.g., Mel Gibson) do...

Please don't associate true Christians with the apostate "Mainline" Protestant denominations and their Marxist absurdity spawn, the WCC. We have nothing in common.

And if you don't think born again Christians take a lot of shots, you have your head in the sand. No group is more hated and attacked in our culture.

[ninenot]

First, I did not mean to insult you by intimating that you were a mainliner-Prot. Sorry; I know you are not.

Secondly--you are correct in that the Evangelical/Born Again groups are targets and have taken the majority of the shots in the USA over the last 10 years.

I am embarrassed that the Roman Catholics have not taken MORE shots than the Evan/BornAgains--that's because many of the recent Cardinals and Bishops have been politically correct--not praise from my lips.

But the Galileo affair is strictly RC, as was our hero, Torquemada and his Inquisition. Thus on balance, over just the last 500 years, the RC's have the 'persecuted' crown, by a narrow margin over Orthodox Jews and by a wider margin over Evan/Born Agains (but you guys started late...)