The enduring strength of anti-Catholicism in Britain still surprises me when it comes to my attention.
In the U.S. today*, anti-Christian sentiment tends to focus more on "fundamentalists," which is more or less evangelical Protestant. Anti-Catholicism is more deeply rooted (we inherited it, after all), and I shouldn't be surprised if it lasts longer, but it's a good bit less vitriolic.
*At least in the upper Midwest where I live, and in the Establishment which no one can avoid. I understand old-fashioned anti-Catholicism still has some currency in the Old South, which would not be surprising on historic grounds. Surprisingly, anti-Catholicism does not seem to be a particularly salient feature of current anti-immigrant sentiment.
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Date: 2009-10-31 06:02 pm (UTC)In the U.S. today*, anti-Christian sentiment tends to focus more on "fundamentalists," which is more or less evangelical Protestant. Anti-Catholicism is more deeply rooted (we inherited it, after all), and I shouldn't be surprised if it lasts longer, but it's a good bit less vitriolic.
*At least in the upper Midwest where I live, and in the Establishment which no one can avoid. I understand old-fashioned anti-Catholicism still has some currency in the Old South, which would not be surprising on historic grounds. Surprisingly, anti-Catholicism does not seem to be a particularly salient feature of current anti-immigrant sentiment.