The Bigots
by VP
Posted on Monday August 21, 2023 at 01:00AM in Documents
Saint Catherine of Siena, Wake Forest NC
"The Catholics are bigoted." But, which, I ask, is the greater bigot,
the catholic, who, perhaps quietly dropping his beads, and insulting no
one, is yet indeed forcibly attached to his religion, because it is the
religion of the saints, and the faith of every age, or the protestant,
who, although, it may be, he is not attached to any peculiar creed,
still, with relentless animosity, insults his catholic brethren;
misrepresenting their tenets, vilifying their characters; casting
suspicion upon their sincerity; and calling down upon them, not merely
the ill will of the state; but, what is worse, the ill will of their
fellow-citizens; which of these, I ask, is the greater bigot! No doubt,
it is the latter.
Well; and if so, then it is likewise true, that the bigots of the latter description are, I do not say, general, but exceedingly common, even in the best educated ranks of Protestantism."
Source: The Catholic's Manual. Jacques Bossuet 1817
