Religion is another harsh frontier with friends and family. A former friend of mine-an irreligious fellow-decided that my fundamentalist ways needed enlightening. He conned his liberal ELCA Lutheran wife into having a "religious discussion" with me. What neither one of them knew was that at the time I was teaching formation classes at my church and was drawing heavily on Luther's Large Catechism. In fact, at the time I had it pretty well memorized. I had also recently read the Book of Concord and taken notes. So imagine her astounded surprise when I started contradicting her pro-abort, pro-gay, lukewarm Christless theism with quotes from Luther and the BoC, complete with page referneces. I let her talk long enough to convince herself that she had won me over first, of course. It was delicious fun. I never saw my friend's wife again after that day...she avoided me like ebola.
Great story! Nothing like the truth followed by facts to flummox the opposition! Well done...and once again proves the superiority of facts over “feelings”....love it.....