Kindergarten through eighth grade, four years of high school, and five years of undergrad, if you’re curious. (I said something like "**close to **twenty, IIRC.) And there’s a difference between “knowing your shit” and “being able to back that shit up with specific references,” especially when you come out of a religions tradition (Roman Catholicism) that puts a low emphasis on Biblical literalism.
I fail to see the “cognitive dissonance.” You think that only people who are Catholic go to Catholic schools, that all people who are raised Catholic remain Catholic their entire lives, and atheists have no exposure to any religious traditions? Hoooooookay.
1.) Uh, no, it wasn’t specifically in reference to that. It was in reference to being able to bring up a bunch of quotes to back up the idea of Jesus negating all the old piddly laws (like working on the Sabbath, getting circumcized, cotton-poly blends, etc.). What thread were you reading?
2.) I swapped the words when I wrote it (sorry, my brain does that sometimes), but I was clearly (in line with my previous assertions) citing it in its original, unswapped meaning.
It’s a Pit thread, not GQ. You can tell the difference, because it’s right up there in the header at the top of the page. If you can’t read it, I can take a screen shot and circle it for you, so you can try to memorize the pattern of pretty lines for next time. Posting here, I have no need for due dilligence, and correspondingly, you have no need to take me at my word.
ETA, because you’re probably either too lazy or retarded to follow the chain back yourself: I saidI didn’t have a Bible handy in response to this postfrom Sampiro, which while it quoted my swapped post, had everything to do with unsubstantiated claims and nothing to do with me swapping the words.