I don't fully understand the animosity Protestants have toward the Catholic church and vise versa. We protestants can have civil conversations between each other despite our disagreements more easily than we can with Catholics. Why is that?
I can think of a few things about other Protestant denominations that I really question just as I question some Catholic traditions and beliefs. There are traditions and beliefs in my own Lutheran church that I question and there are things I miss from my Catholic upbringing such as the traditional acts of reverence which is lacking some in most protestant churches and confession although I do have misgivings about the Catholic practice of confession with regard to how penance is administered.
I think God can use all of us to learn from each other.
I have found that it's the Catholics who arrogantly proclaim themselves as "the one true church". They falsely claim that Peter was the first Pope and that other denominations are not the true church.
They are bogged own with so much misinformation and man-made traditions that they "can't see the forest for the trees". For example, they pray to Mary and "the saints", which is unscriptural. They are so bogged down in extra-Biblical traditions and rituals that they are more like OT Hebrews than Christians.
I am even on a thread where the poster claims that the Catholic Church predates the Bible! Really!
"Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18