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And a devoted fan help demonstrate why I became Catholic.\u00a0 Peter Bradley unpacks the book and points out its more obvious flaws<\/a>.\u00a0 He rightly observes that it belongs to a hopefully bygone era of Archie Bunker style bigotry, racism, and prejudice that, sadly, informed far too many congregations over the years.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure there are Catholics who are just as bad.\u00a0 Muslims in their own ways.\u00a0 Jews perhaps.\u00a0 Atheists even.\u00a0 I don\u2019t pretend that one group has a monopoly on evil thoughts and actions.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still telling that many ideals Protestants have about the Catholic Church are rooted in such flagrant bigotry and ignorance of the historical record.\u00a0\u00a0 Most, of course, wouldn\u2019t be caught dead defending such ideals, but have\u00a0grown comfortable enjoying the watered down fruits of it nonetheless.\u00a0 Then again, based on responses to Mr. Bradley\u2019s review, it looks like there\u2019s still some out there who worship at the \u2018only Church God loves\u2019 congregation of bigotry and ignorance.\u00a0 Not to mention some milk-out-the-nose hilarity at mangling and mauling the history of the early Christian Church.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"