text: The religious types (BROohthor, and these sisters) and the clerically minded Jesuits (Martin, and Orsy) hate OD because it's not "religious".
  
  They see OD as "taking vocations away" from the religious life. 
  
  They don't get the message of St Josemaria that the lay vocation is every bit as hard and important and joyful and a path to holiness as the religious life is.    
  
  They reject it.  They have their passing/shrinking status as "religious" to prop up. 
  
  St Josemaria said, before it was popular - while the Jesuits were trying to undo his work: 
  
  "the sole objective of Opus Dei has always been to see to it that there be men and women of all races and social conditions who endeavour to love and to serve God and the rest of mankind in and through their ordinary work, in the midst of the realities and interests of the world."