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[quote=Anonymous]Catholic DH here, married to a Protestant DW.  There is mutual ignorance.

What I know of Protestant religions I learned not from the Church (which frankly never mentioned any other church or religion, whether Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, etc.), but from History class, plus a course I listened to on CD called "The History of Christianity in the Reformation Era" by the Great Courses.  Link if you're interested:  http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/religion/history-of-christianity-in-the-reformation-era.html

But DW's knowledge of the Catholic Church was based on what she learned at her fundamentalist (non-mainstream) church growing up, which was that the RC church was "bad".  They taught that the Roman Catholic church was devil-inspired, that the Pope was the anti-Christ, that the veneration of saints and of Mary were a violation of the Commandment against false idols, and that [i]The Jews[/i]--even worse than the Catholics--had betrayed Jesus (not just the Sanhedrin, but [i]The Jews[/i] writ large).

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