To rant – I find it really annoying when people use verses like bullets. They shoot them out at you as is (or with perhaps a few random words in ALL CAPS) and just leave it at that. No follow up, no argument, no reasoning – just the verses. I want to shake them and point out that they need to interpret the verses to get their point across. But the issue is that that type of person who would just throw verses in an argument is also the type person who holds a literal view of the bible which doesn’t allow for the possibility of interpretation. They assume that there is only one right way to read the bible forever and ever amen. So hurling a verse or two makes perfect sense because everyone obviously reads those verses in exactly the same way (in every denomination, in every country, in every time period, in every language…). It just gets frustrating and its impossible to continue conversations when someone starts doing that. So since its hopeless to point out to them that the world (and all theology) does not revolve around them, I thought I would rant here…