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attend a Christian Singles Praise & Worship within your respective city. At some of these gatherings, there are upwards of 1,500 single Christian women, so you have a good chance of meeting a good woman.

Nice try. However --

(1) the "righteous" among them have mostly been brainwashed into "kissing dating goodbye" and are therefore unapproachable unless you're already an intimate part of their social circle (in which case, of course, you'd be 'just friends' -- a catch 22 that keeps many women single permanently) -- and

(2) the hypocrites among them, who are legion, are worse than the unbelievers. Tragically, I found that "a large percentage, perhaps a majority, of them have very little sense of morals and values", even WITHIN the supposedly Bible-believing church world.

I didn't say that they were perfect, but rather you'd have a better chance of finding a good woman. I believe that.

Furthermore, yes, you're right, many Christian women have "kissed dating goodbye". Much of that has come about through a pretty known author's best-seller. It's the "Courtship idea".

I can see both sides, for dating someone before you've known them at least a little while creates a false impression of the person of whom you are dating. You may get wrapped up in infatuation long before you've gotten to know the individual's character, actions, life, etc. This can lead many people to fall in love with people of whom they have nothing in common.

On the other hand, I can see the benefit of dating, for not everyone is able to have the time, given their schedule, to be with the realm of their date's social circle. Furthermore, social circles, though they can protect an individual from being taken of by a person of whom is not their match, it does force a disciminatory factor onto the person of whom the social person is dating.

Furthermore, given the times, men and women of the same age do not often easily come into contact with one another, hence they're unlikely to develop friendships with members of the opposite sex of which they can interact within a social circle setting. Therefore, dating is the only option for guys and girls left out of the "social pipeline", unless they just happen to meet someone and all of a sudden say that they're just going to be friends. However, that situation is often awkward for both persons, though not a working improbability.