the serial-killer

Lately I have been contrasting Protestant culture with Catholic culture. I stressed the emphasis that Protestants put on actions and the emphasis that Catholics put on words. I also introduced a distinction between the public and the private realms of life. Protestants are at their best in the public realm of life, such as in matters involving economic and political institutions and lawfulness, whereas Catholics tend to excel in matters pertaining to the private realm of life, such as food, family, sex and personal relations.

I would like now to ask the following question: what is the absolute worst of each of these two cultures? Before answering the question, let me stress that the worst of each culture must be found where each one of them puts its respective emphasis - action in the case of Protestant culture, words in the case of Catholic culture.

Thus, the worst of Protestant culture, with the emphasis it places on action, must be found among the class of people I would call serial-doers. Conversely, the worst of Catholic culture with its emphasis on words, must be found among the class of people I would call serial-talkers.

Trying to be more specific, I must now look in Protestant culture for the worst sub-class of people among serial-doers, and in Catholic culture for the worst sub-class of people among the class of serial-talkers. It is not difficult to find them. In Protestant culture it is the sub-class of serial-killers, in Catholic culture the sub-class of serial-slanderers. They represent the worst in each of their cultures, and are largely unknown to the other culture. Indeed, the serial-killer is as much unknown to Catholic culture as the serial-slanderer is unknown to Protestant culture.