Reply #6: As a Catholic, this is skin-deep at *best* - most likely media wank [View All]

[Zynx]

Evangelicals and Catholics really don't like each other on a pretty fundamental level. The Catholic Church was long ago dubbed Satan's Whore by the fundies - many fundies don't even consider Catholics "Christian."

As dumb as that sounds.

Likewise, Catholics are generally aware of this and don't look favorably on evangelicals and fundies who have no spiritual training whatsoever and run around quoting old Jewish laws. The lack of any control on what is an acceptable belief is a major sticking point for Catholics as regards the fundies. See Shi'a and Sunni Islam - Catholics are much more like the Shi'a while fundies are like the Sunni. You can push an extreme loony belief in evangelical Christianity without any difficulty.

And fundies are literally excommunicated - that is to say they cannot receive Communion in a Catholic church any more than a Muslim could. I'm using this in the sense that they can't get Communion - not that there is a specific decree of excommunication. Anglicans, in contrast, can get Communion, as can several other non-evangelical Christian denominations.

But evangelicals are most certainly *not* Catholic allies.