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I usually ask evangelicals one thing "Where IS holy-rolling in the bible?". It doesn't shut them up, unfortunately.

And then, when they get on the anti-drinking kick, my question is "Now, what was Christ's first miracle?" Half can't name it. And when I tell them, I get, "Well, He didn't drink any of it." Yeah.

And the arguments over Our Lady and the saints...

Most people I know who left the church did so on ideological lines, mostly having to do with human desire. Come to think of it, almost all were baby-boomers, too. No offence, to any boomers out there. One of my cousins really got confused when one week the priest who was a teacher left the priesthood to marry a nun. A lot of that happened, we now know. So, this cousin of mine hasn't been to church to worship since. Funny, though, his two sons go to church with their friends, who are Catholic.

So, how to answer the victims of moral ineptitude?

And then, when they get on the anti-drinking kick, my question is "Now, what was Christ's first miracle?" Half can't name it. And when I tell them, I get, "Well, He didn't drink any of it." Yeah. Add this arrow to your quiver" the Puritan Fathers were not teetotlers. In fact, beer, ale and, later rum, were consumed by them as we consume soda pop. The "demon-rum" thing is a 19th Century obsession and is entirely unbiblical.

"Most people I know who left the church did so on ideological lines, mostly having to do with human desire."

I knew a woman who says she left because as a child the huge crucifix in the church made her cry and because the Church did not forbid drinking which was why her father was an alcoholic. So silly. She was on her third marriage.