Yes, but the topic here is not "Do all Catholics hate Protestants?" You answered that question of your own making as a way of NOT answering the question that was asked. I completely believe that you don't know any Catholics who "hate" Protestants, but what of all those who -- as the question of the thread asks-- are "anti-Protestant?"
That's right; there are plenty who may not
hate Protestants but do look down on them, ridicule them, consider them to be "playing at church," and the like.
Then too, I see, you take the time to include in your reply to me a bunch of reasons, true or not, that are supposed to
justify anti-Protestantism. Good grief! Would you like to make my point for me with a few more such claims?
There are Catholics who don't hate Protestantism. Maybe many do, but I believe the word "anti-Protestantism" is still too vague. So I asked what it meant when I first posted to this thread.
Here in the U.S., many liberals will call you an anti-Semite if you tell them that to go to Heaven, Jews need to accept Christ. Others will insist that you hate homosexuals when you're against same-sex marriage or when you say that homosexual acts are always immoral. Those liberals will accuse you of anti-something-or-other to imply that you hate the people they think you're against. They'll also ignore the difference between judging a person and judging his actions, his beliefs, or both.
Those American liberals seem to believe that tolerance is approval, lack of disapproval, or indifference. Say you tolerate the way I disturb the peace when I play an opera CD loudly enough to awaken you and my other neighbors at 5:00 a.m. Then you're enduring something that's not okay. You're not being indifferent to it. The original meaning of the verb "to tolerate" was something like, "to endure an evil to prevent a greater one or to get a greater good." Tolerant people put up with what they don't like.
Do I hate Islam? No, but I am against it because I think it includes false doctrines. Nor do I hate Muslims. I love them with Christ's love. I live by an important principle, too: Respect people, not false beliefs. My false beliefs probably outnumber my true ones, which helps explain why I'll reject any of them when someone or something convinces me that I'm mistaken. But I refuse to respect even my own misconceptions.
For years, I belonged to Protestant youth groups, attended Protestant Bible studies, and talked with Protestants. An evangelical acquaintance of mine assured me, "We all love Jesus. That's all that matters." To me, opinions like that one suggest that their believers need to care much more about truth. For me, truth is infinitely more important than anyone's freedom to believe anything he wants to believe. Christ warns us that the world will hate us because we follow Him. Yes, my friends, sometimes someone else's hatred shows that we're doing something right.
I'll listen to other people, I'll learn all I can learn from them, I'll even be grateful when they prove me wrong. I will never be tolerant when tolerance is approval, lack of disapproval, or indifference. Neither will you, I hope.
