You won’t like this –
not at all!
How often, if you speak
out against homosexualism (no, not homosexuality) or any other pressure-group, do you hear the duckspeak: Some of my best friends
are……….
No! No! No!
I have no friends whom I know to be actively
homosexual;.
whom I know to be rich.
I am poorish, and do not like the rich;
whom I know to be deep
ecologists. They are mad;
whom I know to be in
favour of abortion – need I explain why?
I have no friends whom I
know to be religious Jews, only because religious Jews choose their friends
from among their co-religionists. Does that make them bigots, speaking
duckspeakfully? I think not.
I had a friend, who was
a Jew and I think privately a Chasidic Jew, though he dressed like an
Englishman. We were in business together and every week he would invite me
and a couple of other Catholics to a debating society which met weekly in the
Bloomsbury Hotel. It sounded very boring, and too much like school, so I always pleaded the need to go home to my family. Later it
emerged that the society was Jewish and seeking converts. Had I known I would
certainly have gone for the chance to learn, question, and argue. I approve
totally of missionary activity.
I guess he was a bigot,
too, because he was devoutly religious, a family man, and would never have accepted that
the Messiah has already come. His reasons were, for him, rational.
I had a number of Muslim
Arab friends when I worked in the End of London. One, the chef at my
favourite restaurant, was called Ossama. They were witty (in English, too. I
know no Arabic), clever, well educated, and knew far more about European
history that the average English person. They also were out, sometimes very
subtly, sometimes openly, to bring in converts. Good for them! I did my best to
present Catholicism to them, but without success.
One of them told me that
Allah would forgive me if I killed my father, mother, brother, or sister, but
not if I continued to say that He had a Son. Very bigoted, but for him, rational.
I am choosy about my friends
– and enemies, for I, too, am duckspeakingly a bigot.
A bigot is someone who knows or thinks he has the truth. He then acts in accordance with it.
To be Catholic is to
believe that only Christ saves, and that he does so through His Church, whether
the person to be saved is Catholic or not. That is what I understand to be the
truth of “no Salvation outside the Church”.
Unacceptable bigotry!
Quack! Quack!
