[MarkBsnr]

My Presbyterian church will offer Scriptural reading from Mark this week. You'll just have to trust me.

Certainly. I could no more doubt your word than I could doubt the respiratory health of J. Gresham Machen.

I've attended dozens of Roman Catholic Sunday services. I was even a bridesmaid in three high mass weddings.

Dozens? Aren't you the lucky one. High Mass weddings? Wow. Since I will not doubt your word any more than I would doubt J. Gresham Machen's respiratory health, I would ask a favour. What year and diocese were one of these high mass weddings held at? And was it at a parish church, a basilica minor or basilica major, or a cathedral?

The rest of your blather about Calvin is fiction.

Blather? I do not blather about Calvin. He is a very important figure in Christian history, even more important than Marcion, Nestorius, and Arius.

By 28 he had written his first edition of "The Institutes of the Christian Religion," the second greatest book ever written.

Well, third, after the Cat in the Hat.

And he did all this while preaching every Sunday and during the week and teaching the Scriptures full-time.

And finding the time to kill, maim and terrorize the good burghers of Geneva, setting an example for the East German Stasi to boot. He was a busy man and accomplished much.

You show so much interest in Calvin you might want to read a terrific book, now online free...

And worth every penny. Dr. E., I must thank you for your most excellent education in the person, deeds, and effects of John Calvin. You have taught me much...

[Dr. Eckleburg]

What year and diocese were one of these high mass weddings held at? And was it at a parish church, a basilica minor or basilica major, or a cathedral?

I only give personal information to my friends, Mark. No telling what lunatics are online.

You have taught me much...

Some RC apologists show themselves to be unteachable. Glad to hear you think you're an exception.

[metmom]

And finding the time to kill, maim and terrorize the good burghers of Geneva, setting an example for the East German Stasi to boot. He was a busy man and accomplished much.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. The RCC is guilty of far more atrocities in that area than almost any other religion. They are in no position to start pointing fingers about unChristlike behavior.

If you go there, you lose big time.

[Cronos]

I do not blather about Calvin. He is a very important figure in Christian history, even more important than Marcion, Nestorius, and Arius.

Naaah -- I vote for Marcion as more significant and Arius as more important (I think Nestorius was misunderstood) --> you forget that under Arius the Germanics became followers of a heresy.