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(05-16-2016, 04:19 PM)Benton Wrote: All you kids have it easy. Back in my day, we only hated the Catholics.

Damn robe wearers!

We had this country all to ourselves and things were great. Then the Irish came with their crosses and confessions and rosary beads.

You couldn't eat at a Ye Ol' Pub without one of those heathens coming in, saying a prayer to whoever this Father guy was (seriously, what religion refers to it's deity as a Father!? this was 'Murica — say God or get out). It got worse. They started building their Catholic schools, putting them up within spitting distance of our public, paid for with tax dollar schools.

Luckily they kept mostly to themselves. Good thing, too. We used social media to let them know how uninterested we were — wealthy Protestants published pamphlets and newspapers and other media which we handed out at social events. Plus, we had the Klan, they really helped keep their numbers in check. God bless those bigots, if anyone could drive a Catholic back to their homeland, it was a Klansman waving a flag and burning something.

Which was probably a bad move on our part. When WWII rolled around, we didn't really care who you worshiped. Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Calvinists, Jews — everybody died equally as quick.

I did not know people hated Catholics while I was growing up Catholic.  I was 14 or 15 and I played (still do) in a Church Dartball League and a team from the "Church of Christ" was harassing one of our players because he wore a crucifix and it had come out of the top of his shirt.  He made a point of wearing it outside his shirt from that point forward when we played them.

It was very odd to me.