The Pendragon's Hall

I learned in chapel yesterday that during soccer games in Scotland the other day there was supposed to be a moment of silence for John Paul II and it was drowned out by the jeers of the "Protestant" crowd members. How they found out they were Protestant I don't know and they rightly were denigrated. It's a disgraceful show. I don't think I'd even violate a moment of silence for Jimmy Carter--ah, ah, well I'm not promising anything. It doesn't surprise me it happened in Britain; those people are Philistines all of them, obsessed with their soccer to the exclusion of all else. What I'm wondering is: was it really the "Protestant" element in the crowd that did this or was it the all-too-common-especially-in-Britain "agnostic" group? It's easy to look at people are who anti-Catholic and immediately classify them as Protestants but more often than not, you'll find they just don't like Christians at all, and Catholics especially. Anti-Catholic prejudice has well been named "the last acceptable bigotry" and if you said about blacks, homosexuals, or women half the things that are said with impunity about Catholics you'd be sued for everything you own, including your birth certificate. Evangelicals and Catholics ought to be driven together, you'd think, by their common mistreatment at the hands of "the rest of the world." That we haven't been may be tribute to the words of the Elf-Lords in "Lord of the Rings": "Indeed in nothing is the power of the enemy shown so much than in the estrangement of those who oppose him."