When some can no longer defend their theology the term “bigot” is brought out and paraded around. Or some baptist shows up and defends it for them. “Bigot” is a big old spit slush ball, you might want to invest in a helmet and a visor with wind sheild wipers
Quoted as an attempt at some kind of refudiation of us is the following:
I have taught that even the beginning of faith, as continence, patience, righteousness, piety, and the rest, concerning which there is no dispute with them, is God's gift.
Not only have I often said almost exactly that, but I have repeatedly gone on to say that EVERY subsequent good work, either corporal or spiritual is also God's gift.
Yet there is often no interval, or an infinitessimal interval, between my posting such a remark and the beginning of an inquisition, which I have survived every time so far, because my inquisitors simply cannot believe what has been said by Catholics semper, ubique, et ab omnibus.
Calvinists, or some of them, seem to think they have full and exclusive rights to the idea that every good gift is from God, despite its being in Scripture, and think that their way of thinking of this is the only way.
This is so much a part of the "mentality" (as one of you says) they exhibit that they simply cannot accept the fact that a guy like me would swim the Tiber because after thought, study, prayer, and at personal expense, both emotional and financial, he concluded that, barring the Orthodox churches, he had never seen that truth propounded as well and as thoroughly anywhere other than in the Catholic Church and by her "doctors."
An instance of bigotry is seen when someone is so sure that he knows what you think that nothing you say or do can change his opinion.
INDEED.
a helmet with wipers . . . and built-in perfumed aroma dispensers.