From my experience, it’s terribly not uncommon to see Evangelicals and Pentecostals rag on Catholics a lot, so much so that it’s their way of showing what they’re doing is superior, even though God says it’s still boasting to see yourself as better than others even sinners like them. They keep on ragging on Catholics for ‘worshipping’ Mary, even though some have made idols out of the unemployed housewife. Instead of doing away Marianismo, they recreated it in the form of complimentarianism.
Odder still is that for all their Biblical literalism, they seldom hold dogs and dog owners in the same regard they have for Catholics even if the Bible doesn’t have that high opinion of dogs either. The only Evangelicals who do so a lot tend to be Pentecostals from select countries like Cameroon, Ghana and Democratic Republic of Congo, where they associate them with witchcraft which makes them more biblically consistent since there’s a verse that mentions both dogs and sorcerers together.
I even have a nagging feeling why you don’t commonly see Evangelicals rag on dog owners that much is because Catholics constitute a very easy target for their resentment, even though dog owners should also be one of their targets especially when their love for dogs crosses over to idolatry. Maybe some of them do, but not enough to drown the rampant anti-Catholicism. Selective outrage much, to the point where it feels like hypocrisy despite their Biblical literalism.
Even stranger is that they should be good friends with Muslims, since they also don’t like the use of graven images in worship. But they also resent them a lot, not just that they worship a false god but they also remind them too much of themselves. Down to the fanatical obsession with women not showing skin or revealing clothes in any way, whereas this is relegated to a minority in Judaism. (Maybe that’s why Jews are wary of Evangelicals.)
Oddly enough, I feel geek culture might be a far better target for their resentment of idolatry. I have this feeling before, especially whenever geeks love the things they like without putting God first. Well most of them do, not that they’re autistic but that what they’re doing is idolatry refined into an art form or a science. Fan art can constitute a graven image far better than Catholic art of Jesus, since the latter at least honours God.
Everything they say about Catholics fits geek culture far better, especially since I had this revelation in life that the closer I get to God, the less I am involved in geek fandoms. Which’s a side effect of being this devoted to God, you can’t have any idols competing with God and this includes geek fandom idols. I feel if they did target fandom a lot the way they do with Catholicism, not just those suspected of witchcraft but anybody who gets in the way of God it would result in great controversy.
Like if they start targeting geek culture for idolatry, they’d have a better target for their resentment but one that would be far more controversial if they did this at all. I guess it really is selective outrage all the way, even though some prove better targets for their rage and anger than others.
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