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In reply to the discussion: Santorum: Mainline Protestant Churches Are in the Grip of Satan [View all]whathehell
(28,941 posts)and my Mormon cousins are presently trying to save their dead catholic relatives, "retroactively", if you will.
"I think that, back in the old days, demonization was disguised as "poor, poor Protestants, they know not what they do." So there was no overt "demonization" but the essential sentiment was there nonetheless"
Sorry, but I disagree.....Patronization is not a "disguise" for demonization, it's more like condescension -- a mild sense of superiority (which was and continutes to be reciprocated by Protestants) and it stops FAR short of "demonization".....If the Catholic Church thought Protestants were "from hell", they wouldn't allow Catholic-Protestant intermarriage, as they do, nor would they recognize both protestant baptism and protestant marriage as "legitmate", as opposed, in the latter case, to civil marriage which they don't recognize as a "marriage" at all.
You're free to wax cynical about religion as a "business", but, generally speaking, they're no worse than the protestants.