Curious Christian

Philip Jenkins made an interesting comment to the Wittenburg Door last year:

Anti-Catholicism … survives as what I call “the last acceptable prejudice.” In other words, if you say something that is insensitive or hostile about most religious or ethnic groups, then those words will come back to haunt you and in many cases destroy you … If you say something about Catholicism, or even something, which is very hostile, really quite extreme, and in many people’s idea, constitutes outrageous bigotry, it doesn’t. Nobody really notices. You’re expected to lighten up and not take this too seriously.

At first I though, “What about Islamophobia?” but on reflection I took his point and was intruged by his suggestion that what makes the new anti-Catholicism different is its leftist origins. It is interesting to consider the Da Vinci Code phenomena as anti-Catholic propoganda in light of the recent Danish cartoon business.