Many Evangelicals Hate Catholics

We saw a modern day Iconophile a few posts back taking delight that only his ilk will be able understand his Holy-Spirit-Speak, he disqualifying atheists altogether, and demonizing all Catholics! This THING took delight in being utterly exclusive, he more then likely believing he and his kind should take over our Democracy and install a theocracy – where only the select will be allowed to run for office, because they speak the same Holy Tongue! Jesus used to be very inclusive, he even forgiving Paul who hunted down, arrested, and tortured saints of the first church in order to get them renounce “their Lord” and when they did not – he murdered them! Wow! That is INCLUSIVE! That THING uses Paul’s word to go after Catholics!

Years ago I began to wonder if some of the many splits in my family were the cause of religious conflicts, especially when I discovered my grandmother’s family were forced to flee Germany during Bismark’s Kulturakumpf, and my grandfather’s people were Orangemen who were forced to flee Ireland after a conflict with the Catholcis resulted in murder.

Above is the oldest surviving Dutch painting due the Iconoclastic War that ravaged the Netherlands. It depicts several generations of the Roover family being led before Our Lady of the Swan Brethren by Saint George. The Roovers and Rosemont family are kin. The Swan Brethren admitted the first Protestants. William of Orange was a member, and thus, worshipped an Icon. William is a Founding Father of the Protestant Religion.

Jon Presco

Priests and bishops who resisted the Kulturkampf were arrested or removed from their positions. By the height of anti-Catholic legislation, half of the Prussian bishops were in prison or in exile, a quarter of the parishes had no priest, half the monks and nuns had left Prussia, a third of the monasteries and convents were closed, 1800 parish priests were imprisoned or exiled, and thousands of laypeople were imprisoned for helping the priests.[2]

Iconoclasm[1]is the deliberate destruction of religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religiousor political motives. It is a frequent component of major political or religious changes. The term encompasses the more specific destruction of images of a ruler after his death or overthrow (damnatio memoriae), for example, following Akhenaten’s death in Ancient Egypt.
People who engage in or support iconoclasm are called “iconoclasts”, a term that has come to be applied figuratively to any person who challenges established dogma or conventions. Conversely, people who revere or venerate religious images are (by iconoclasts) called “iconolaters”. In a Byzantine context, they are known as “iconodules”, or “iconophiles”.

1566 — Iconoclasm and repression
Main article: Beeldenstorm
See also: Geuzen

Reliefstatues in the Cathedral of Saint Martin, Utrecht, attacked in Reformationiconoclasm in the 16th century.[14]
The atmosphere in the Netherlands was tense due to the rebellion preaching of Calvinist leaders, hunger after the bad harvest of 1565, and economic difficulties due to the Northern Seven Years’ War. Early August 1566, a monastery church at Steenvoordein Flanders (now in Northern France) was sacked by a mob led by the preacher Sebastian Matte.[15]This incident was followed by similar riots elsewhere in Flanders, and before long the Netherlands had become the scene of the Beeldenstorm, a riotous iconoclasticmovement by Calvinists, who stormed churches and other religious buildings to desecrate and destroy church art and all kinds of decorative fittings over most of the country. The number of actual image-breakers appears to have been relatively small[16]and the exact backgrounds of the movement are debated,[17]but in general, local authorities did not step in to rein in the vandalism. The actions of the iconoclasts drove the nobility into two camps, with Orange and other grandees opposing the movement and others, notably Henry of Brederode, supporting it. Even before he answered the petition by the nobles, Philip had lost control in the troublesome Netherlands. He saw no other option than to send an armyto suppress the rebellion. On 22 August 1567, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, marched into Brussels at the head of 10,000 troops.[18]

Iconoclasm: The organised destruction of Catholic images swept through Netherlands churches in 1566.
Alba took harsh measures and rapidly established a special court (Raad van Beroerten or Council of Troubles) to judge anyone who opposed the King. No one, not even high nobility who had been pleading for less harsh measures, was safe. Alba considered himself the direct representative of Philip in the Netherlands and frequently bypassed Margaret of Parma and made use of her to lure back some of the fugitive nobles, notably the counts of Egmont and Horne, causing her to resign office in September 1567.[19] Egmont and Horne were arrested for high treason, condemned, and a year later decapitatedon the Grand Placein Brussels. Egmont and Horne had been Catholic nobles who were loyal to the King of Spain until their death. The reason for their execution was that Alba considered they had been treasonous to the king in their tolerance to Protestantism. Their death, ordered by a Spanish noble, rather than a local court, provoked outrage throughout the Netherlands. Over one thousand people were executed in the following months.[2] The large number of executions led the court to be nicknamed the “Blood Court” in the Netherlands, and Alba to be called the “Iron Duke”. Rather than pacifying the Netherlands, these measures helped to fuel the unrest.
[edit] William of Orange
Main article: William the Silent

William the Silent, Prince of Orange, Stadtholderof the Spanish Netherlandsand Leader of the Dutch Revolt.

Don Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba”The Iron Duke” Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1567-1573).
William I of Orange was stadtholderof the provinces Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, and Margrave of Antwerp; and the most influential noble in the States General who had signed the petition. After the arrival of Alba, to avoid arrest, as had happened to Egmont and Horne, he fled to the lands ruled by his wife’s father — the Count-Elector of Saxony. All his lands and titles in the Netherlands were forfeited to the Spanish King.
In 1568, William returned to try to drive the highly unpopular Duke of Alba from Brussels. He did not see this as an act of treason against the King (Philip II), but as an option for reconciliation with the Spanish King. William’s disposing of misguided ministers like Alba would allow the king to take his legal place once more. This view is reflected in today’s Dutch national anthem, the Wilhelmus, in which the last lines of the first stanza read: den koning van Hispanje heb ik altijd geëerd (I have always honoured the King of Spain). In pamphlets and in his letters to allies in the Netherlands William also called attention to the right of subjects to renounce their oath of obedience if the sovereign would not respect their privileges.[20]An attempt was made to encroach on the Netherlands from four different directions, with armies led by his brothers invading from Germany and with French Huguenotsinvading from the south. Although the Battle of Rheindalen near Roermondoccurred already on 23 April 1568 and was won by the Spanish, the Battle of Heiligerlee, fought on 23 May 1568, is commonly regarded as the beginning of the Eighty Years’ War, and it resulted in a victory for the rebel army. But the campaign ended in failure as William ran out of money and his own army disintegrated, while those of his allies were destroyed by the Duke of Alba.
William of Orange stayed at large and, being the only one of the grandees still able to offer resistance, was from then on seen as the leader of the rebellion. When the revolt broke out once more in 1572 he moved his court back to the Netherlands, to Delft in Holland, as the ancestral lands of Orange in Breda remained occupied by the Spanish. Delft remained William’s base of operations until his assassination by Balthasar Gérard in 1584.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Revolt

Why is Governor Huckabee hesitating to denounce the anti-Catholic comments from his supporter, Pastor Tim Rude? It is hard to imagine that Governor Huckabee thinks Pastor Tim Rude’s prejudiced tactics are acceptable,” Brownback spokesman John Rankin said.
Brownback and Huckabee are two of the candidates planning to participate in Iowa’s straw poll in less than two weeks.

I am constantly amazed at the anti-Catholic sentiments in this country. In the past couple years I have experienced first hand evangelical Christians renouncing the Catholic faith and it’s members. It has happened so often that I probably shouldn’t be surprised anymore.

i told a lady in church today that her husband (who goes to the catholic church) was going to hell and that she would too if she decided to join him at the catholic church….but mostly it was because i was trying to brainwash her into staying at our church, because she is one of the only people under 50 there….and i like her.

“In 1825, in the village of Fenagh in county Leitrim in Ireland, a gang of Catholic youths attacked the Rosamond home. The Rosamonds were staunch Protestants. James, aged 20 (born 1805) and his brother Edward, aged 15, attempted to protect their mother. A shot was fired by Edward and a youth was dead. The boys fled to Canada. James went
to Merrickville where he worked for James Merrick as a weaver. Edward, still fearing arrest, worked his way eventually to Memphis, Tennessee.”

The Orange Lodges have existed in Canadaat least since the War of 1812. It was more formally organized in 1830 when the Grand Orange Lodge of British North America was established.[citation needed] Most early members were from Ireland, but later many English, Scots, and other Protestant Europeansjoined the Order.
The Order was the chief social institution in Upper Canada, organizing many community and benevolent activities, and helping Protestant immigrants to settle. It remained a predominant political force in southern Ontariowell into the twentieth century. A notable exception to Orange predominance occurred in London, Ontario, where Catholic and Protestant Irish formed a non-sectarian Irish society in 1877.