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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Edwarda who wrote (75833)	3/19/2000 3:54:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

This complex of insults is revealing as it shows the depths of animosity English Protestants had toward the Church. No other religious body (perhaps no other group at all-even national or racial ones) has such a complex of insults woven into the English language as does the [Roman] Catholic Church. Even today many Protestants who have no idea what the origin of the term is cannot bring themselves to say "Catholic" without qualifying it or replacing it with a Roman insult. Not only Protestants! As an advocate of good English style, I have taken the liberty of correcting your misuse of "Catholic" in referring to the Papist church. You reveal your ignorance of church history if you think the English insults of the Papists were particularly strong. You should read what Luther said about the Papist Church and what the Papist Church said about Luther. Not to mention the fights between Athanasius and his enemies. Of course, the English churchmen were deeply offended by being burned at the stake by Mary and her Papist henchmen. Nothing like being burned at the stake to piss off a schismatic archbiship. I don't know whether the Pope's apology was specifically directed to Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley, but I think it would be nice for him to try. Give the Church of England a little time to digest the apologies by the Pope. Perhaps they will revert to calling Roman Catholics Papists.