Are extreme anti-Catholics more likely to be non-denominational or denominational Protestants?

[falkenlaser]

Are the most extreme anti-Catholics, as in ones who believe the conspiracies of Jack Chick, Alexander Hislop, Tony Alamo, etc., most likely to be part of backwoods non-denominational churches, or established denominations? And what established denominations are the most likely to promote such extreme anti-Catholicism?

 

[CTBcin]

It’s complicated. There is an inherent anti-Catholicism in all Protestant groups (there’s a reason they’re called Protestants!). However, in most mainline groups, this anti-Catholicism has softened over the years. Still, there’s some mainline groups that are still strongly anti-Catholic (especially in some Lutheran traditions).

Some of the more fundamentalist denominations, such as certain Baptist groups or the Church of Christ are more likely to be strongly anti-Catholic.

Non-deniminational groups each have their own beliefs and attitudes. Therefore, some may be mildly ambivalent towards Catholics, while others may be more explicitly anti-Catholic, sometimes even to Jack Chick levels. And of course there are some that don’t care that much either way. It just depends on the church.

This is from my own knowledge and experience growing up with a Protestant background.

 

[commenter]

There are two kinds of anti Catholicism. Groups like ELCA, the Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, and liberal parts of Presbyterianism and Methodism are gradually blending together. As they deemphasize dogma, they are distancing from churches that still have dogmas and absolutes of Right and Wrong.

The other group, fundamentalists, oppose Catholics because we have the “wrong” dogmas. But they believe in dogmas at least.

The second group is annoying, crude, but really closer to conversion than the first group, which is blending into the secular mainstream.

 

[Gingersnaps4]

Where I live the most ill-informed ones are of the Ssouthern Baptist persuasion. The ones that believe all of the extreme anti-Catholic claptrap.

 

[commenter]

But at least Southern Baptists believe in some absolutes. Better the person who believes some wrong dogmas than the liberal who accepts no dogmas. Fundamentalists and Catholics are starting to meet on the sidewalk outside the abortion clinic. You won’t find Catholic or Protestant liberals here. There is raw material for a conversation.

 

[In_prayer]

Both. The small independent non-affiliatec can be more open to discussion especially if they know their scripture. Large organized churches like the Union Presbytery Seminary strongly oppose Catholic teachings because not only did they leave behind tradition some several hundred years ago (for example the eucharist which has now been proven to be practiced by the first churches) but now they are abandoning scripture as the word of God and demoting it to “human reporting” (Prof Dawn Devries). This is an organized effort on the behalf of the Presbyterian Church vs simply misled beliefs by small independents so in my opinion denominational churches more extreme since Catholic theology is in direct opposition to their organized, liberal, socialist agenda which requires the complete absence of right or wrong or any belief based upon scripture that censures or expressly prohibits practicing homosexuality which is what their intended goal is.