I, as well as a lot of Catholics I know, make a habit of reading the daily mass scriptures (posted right here on FR by Salvation) and that RAISES the percentage of the Bible read by Catholics throughout the year.
Anyway, why would my criticism of the Pauline epistles interest you enough to comment? Just the other day, a protestant or two was saying that St. James and St. Jude didn’t belong in the Bible. St. James, I presume because of James 1:22, “Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only” (by memory, that may not be exact) and St. Jude because they thought Peter wrote it, or something like that.
I didn’t read that thread. (re: Jude and James)
Honestly, I’ve been enjoying this one too much to read any others for the past couple of days.
As to why it would interest me enough to comment; because it presented an opportunity to respond to something I have an opinion on in a hopefully witty or amusing way.
A large percentage of the rabbit trails you argue appear to be just conversational injections of humor, not assertions of facts.
For example, the other day when you said to someone that there was a priest with in 500 miles (an assertion I admittedly did not understand- perhaps I missed some of the previous context), and they replied to the effect that they’re closer than that- there’s a prison within 100 miles; it was, I believe an injection of humor.
Your repeated demands that he produce names didn’t discredit the poster in my eyes.
Hyperbole, witticisms and on the internet even half-witticism (typing in my best foghorn Leghorn voice “That’s a joke ma’am... I say that’s a joke”) keep the conversation interesting and make points with impact in ways at which mere repetition of facts fails.
Since it’s a open thread on a public forum, I need not answer why I chose to respond, but have done so anyway.
The comments about the percentage of Bible covered in the three year lectionary...well they were mildly amusing. Trust me, I’ve been smiling ever since I wrote them. If your humor mileage varies, I’m okay with that.
Will Wallace
Don't forget the saying of the rosary. Each verse of each prayer is a verse from the bible and is said in the context of Gospel. This hearkens to a time before literacy was common, and daily prayer widespread.