If reading aloud with the group is what get’s his attention, then the local Children’s Library is gonna blow his mind. I hear they follow along in the book and do connect-the-dots.

LMFAO!!!

The Midol comment was out of line and uncalled for. Then the discussion proceeded to go downhill from there. The women here (excluding me) are extremely intelligent and will not let you get by with an idiotic remark like that.

Your original point, which was to say that being a Christian does not require knowing the scripture inside and out, was valid. The way I see it, Christianity is not at all about memorizing and reciting scripture. Rather, it is about coming to terms with whose identity we have been born into, letting go of self, and trusting God to express himself through us. (Perhaps this is what Jesus means by John 5:38-42?)

Remember, you don’t have to be right all the time, nor do you have to confrontational with everyone. A little bit of humbleness and respect goes a long way. But then again, what do I know?

Obviously you are welcome to “have a different opinion”. But if your position is that the original poster said that nobody “bothered to do the reading” when that is not so, that’s not a “different opinion”. That’s called being wrong.

If these are your smart women, warn me before the dumb ones get here

What a creep. Of course women are going to get mad if you assume Midol is a catch-all cure for what ails us, especially when what ails is have a different opinion than you.

Almost nobody on the planet has the capacity to memorize the Bible. People like Jack Van Impe and Harold Camping have an impressive number of passages memorized, but they can’t stand before you and recite the Bible from cover to cover by memory. Jack Van Impe claims to have “the ability to quote 14,000 Bible verses, including virtually the entire New Testament”, but that is less than half the Bible. There may be some Rainman somewhere in the world who can do it, but I’d be surprised. Some Muslims memorize the Koran, but the Bible is huge in comparison to the Koran.

You should know better than to tangle with smart women.

If these are your smart women, warn me before the dumb ones get here.

You know, I once went to hear Jack Van Impe preach, back in the day when I was a fundamentalist. You have to give him this: he takes the Bible seriously enough to memorize it. That man can recite verses, with citations, as fast as he can speak–and he speaks quickly. You Christo-nationalist/militaro-fascists out there should take a page from Mr. Van Impe’s book, or better yet, from our muslim friends who send their children to schools to memorize the Koran. That’s right: the muslims think so highly of the writings of their Prophet that they memorize it. Seems a reasonable thing to do, if you really believe it.

Take a Midol.

What sexist bullshit. Utterly disgusting.