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As an ex catholic who grew up near Protestant land, it’s because they don’t think of Catholics as Christians. Some think of them as more like Mormons, others more like Satanists. The plus side is that it was a great card to pull to these people when they proselytized. They’ll tell Protestants they need a better version of jesus, but Catholics scare them.
Growing up in west Texas, I talked to one uber-Baptist who for some unfathomable reason believed that the Catholics "worship Mary", therefore they don't follow the "there is only one God" rule and therefore aren't Christian.
Yeah. The Southern Baptist sect was literally founded on the belief that chattel slavery was a good and "godly" thing, it doesn't get better from there. A woman having any deference is pretty offensive to them (the woman's "place" being purely in service of the patriarch of the family, whether husband or father). Mary being venerated as a saint is pure anathema.
I grew up protestant, this is 100% correct haha