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>>hates catholics
not at all, there are good & bad christians in every denomination. whenever they get too cocky though i have to intervene.

"Do not misunderstand me; nothing is further from my mind than to insinuate that Catholics are not loyal and loving to their Church. On the contrary, no Church in the world knows how to captivate people as well as this one. It is the great expert of the human heart, the infinitely loving caregiver of those who are ill in body and soul, the incomparable giver of comfort; like a mother, it cradles us poor, lonely children in its arms, supports the wavering will to do good, lifts up the sinner, and in its mysteries lifts us above ourselves. But while we Protestants - who confess with Luther that "the material of faith is the will" - rush forward with Promethean boldness to fetch the eternal light of the knowledge of God from heaven for ourselves, whereupon we very often run out of strength and fall to the ground like Icarus, this effort is neither required nor even permitted for Catholics. Hence a completely different disposition, which - in paradoxical contrast to the teachings of the popes and councils - manifests itself as great tolerance, broad-mindedness, and indifference."

Houston Stewart Chamberlain

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Friendly reminder that if you are not Catholic, you are not saved. Only Catholics are saved.