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Re: One might have, until the Sixties, said "An American( and a Catholic)"

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In Reply to: Re: One question: would you have said an American( and a Catholic?) nt posted by patrickU on June 5, 2005 at 13:37:58:

Please keep in mind that one of the criticisms JFK faced during his 1960 run for the White House was "He will take all his orders from Rome."
And even today, in some small towns in Arkansas and Texas that I know, it is better if the locals don't know you are Catholic. One time a friend laughed at the silly prejudices exhibited by one community...she was shocked when I told her if that community had known she was a Polish Catholic, she might have had the opportunity to see those prejudices in a much closer light!

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Re: One might have, until the Sixties, said "An American( and a Catholic)" - patrickU 02:10:38 06/07/05 (2)
Yes, I remember this " order from Rome " but is it in the magnitude of...he is a Jew or of Jewish ascendance...And that is world wide, not only in Texas, he-he...and certainly very present in Germany.
- Re: I don't know whether to say fortunately or unfortunately here.... - Gee LP 19:23:44 06/07/05 (1)
  I agree that anti-Catholic prejudice is not what it once was in the United States, and I don't know whether to say fortunately or unfortunately here, but as you point out, it is not of the magnitude that anti-semitism remains in the world today.
  You know, in the New Testament, it says that one day the whole world will mass against Israel. It is a shame that I do not think this verse is just poetry or a metaphor.
  - Re: Yes! - patrickU 03:48:02 06/08/05 (0)
    Well, let look at it as maybe a metaphor and poetry. Like in " les Machab�es."

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