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Quite Frankly- as a Catholic myself- I find charges of "anti Catholicism" among Protestant Americans to be a myth. It is not among the various Christian protestant sects and schismatics that anti- Catholicism is most prevelant- but among the liberal elite who control academia, the culture, and the media. Protestants and Catholics get along quite well in this country and I don't think "anti Catholicism" of the Bob Jones University type is common at all among Protestants in America. Most Christians in this country recognize that our true enemy- is the Christian hating Left in the colleges and the media and the culture. Catholics and Protestants in this country belong to the same socially conservative political action groups- work hand in hand on conservative social issues. Only the most obtuse morons of both faiths still fling barbs at each other.

I have a Baptist Yankee (New England defintion of Yankee is a Protestant of English decent- not just a Northner) coworker. And we always insult each other's religion. He talks about the "reformation" and the various abuses of the Church and I say how protestants believe whatever the new "preacher" tells them- and how they dance with snkes and speak in tounges. We both use gross exxagerations of the other's faith- knowing it is joke and we have fun with it. We both recognize who the real enemy is and it ain't each other.

I thought y'all believed in the Real Presence, or something like that..

[in a Chico Marx Italian accent] "'Ey! You right!"

We're supposed to, yes. And the sinfulness of birth control, and the impossibility of divorce, etc. etc. American Catholics are poorly informed about their own faith, sad to say.

...Communion and drinking wine symbolic of the blood of Christ at Midnite Mass.
I thought y'all believed in the Real Presence, or something like that...

Catholics believe in the Real Presence. Cafeteria catholics believe in “something like that.” Sometimes. ;-)

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