[RobbyS]

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.

[Salvation]

"Now, what was Christ's first miracle?"

Great point there.

However, I always use this story of The Wedding at Cana to illustrate the primacy of the Sacrament of Matrimony since it was Christ's first miracle, asking the Protestants why Jesus performed his first miracle at a wedding?

Also, it was at his Mother's prompting. So sometimes I use this passage to ask the Protestant, "If Jesus, indeed, did what His Holy Mother asked of Him, then why should we not believe that we could ask Mary to intercede for us also?"

They do not have answers to either question!

[Desdemona]

It's not so much the teetotaling, it's that evangelicals claim that Catholics don't read the Bible, yet, most Catholics know the Wedding at Cana was the first miracle. Well, that and the occational martini won't hurt.

I've heard Revelation is not in the Catholic Bible, Catholics don't understand the numbers in the Bible. Not many evangelicals can name all twelve apostles (use the word BAPTISM: B, Bartholomew; A, Andrew; P, (Simon)Peter, Philip; T, Thomas, Jude Thaddeus; I (in Latin J is I), James the Greater, John, James the Lesser, Judas Iscariot; S, Simon; M, Matthew). And then there's speaking in tongues...but that's another story.

I've gotten into a lot of fights with evangelicals. Every February I have to explain Mardi Gras at least once. The concept of the Immaculate Conception. Oh, the list goes on.