The Handbook cites a legitimate exercise of religious freedom» a Bolivian
Catholic newspaper's criticism of the
doctrine and practice of charismatic Protestant churches» as an example of religious intolerance.
A friend of mine, speaking of the
Catholic move to prune excessive Marian
doctrine and practice after Vatican II by moving her statue to the side, observed that Protestants moved her out the door altogether.
Corollaries to these notions were that embodied human beings are intrinsically evil
and must undertake severe ascetical
practices to «free» the soul from its carnal prison; that marriage
and the getting of children is evil;
and that the
Catholic Church, with its bodily sacraments
and its
doctrines of «the resurrection of the flesh,» not to mention its rich
and worldly ways, is a principle of evil.