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Thank you for remembering my previous post, dear sister in Christ!

I miscounted though. He actually quoted Scripture 37 times - and on the day of the sermon 9/25/13, the Daily Mass Reading was 11 verses.

But as the conversion continued it became obvious that LS'98 wanted to count every phrase in a Catholic Mass that has roots in Scripture - though the Scripture references are not given as part of the liturgy.

Truly, I thought the contest was between actual Scripture quotes during Mass versus during a Protestant Service.

I did not count the number of times the pastor used a familiar Scriptural phrase without citing the passage, nor did I count the "amens" or similar references in the prayers, hymns and such that were involved in that service. And it is not on-line.

Such services can go for hours, and the number of "amens" alone would be huge - but LS'98 would not relent. And so to meet the challenge to make some dough for Free Republic, one would have to record an entire Service, transcribe it, parse it and then tally it up.

Surely, a Gateway-like service would have a very, very high count but I have neither the time nor resources to do it.

Truly, I thought the contest was between actual Scripture quotes during Mass versus during a Protestant Service....to meet the challenge to make some dough for Free Republic, one would have to record an entire Service, transcribe it, parse it and then tally it up....

Exactly. As the contest went on, additional requirements kept being piled on. We learned that the Protestant challenger must be a member of the Protestant church holding the worship service, and said member must be present and must record the "entire proceeding". Following that, all Protestant challengers were supposed to submit their respective transcripts to Jim Robinson as "the single most qualified and best one to judge who wins the contest", who would review all transcripts and then make a pronouncement on "the veracity of the competing claims based on the evidence he is presented". Only if/after Jim Robinson declared the Protestant challenger's worship service the winner, would Free Republic get an additional $750.

I have neither the time nor resources to do it.

I can't imagine that Jim Robinson does, either. He's already said everything that needs to be said, anyway:

You keep hounding our RM and I’ll ban you myself. We just happen to be blessed with the very best RM on God’s creation and I’m very thankful for that. If you have a problem with RM or with our religion forum, I’d advise you to steer clear of both. Now you can either behave yourself or leave. The choice is yours.
-- Jim Robinson, Post #174