Ryujin
Legend
I was just reading an article a couple days ago wherein the writer- a Mormon- listed incidents in which religious conservatives berated his children for not being the right kind of Chrisitans...and this was done by someone who was actively evangelizing for converts.
Clearly, someone was unclear on the concept of who can be called for conversion (namely, anyone) and how best to do it (don't insult them, at least).
In my own past, I had run-ins with fellow Chrisitians. My HS- a private Catholic* all-boys school- made national news back in the early 1980s when a Baptist private school decided they were not going to play us anymore because we were Catholics...nevermind they had been playing us for years, and that the fact of our Catholicism was easily discernible since the school's name is one that goes back to the roots of the monastic tradition and has only ever been associated with Catholicism.
IOW, Gandhi had us pegged.
As for your methodology...well let's stipulate that I'm a typical American Catholic: my reading of the bible has been limited to chunks here & there. But despite my not reading it cover-to-cover, my scholarship over what I HAVE read is good enough that when I get drawn into debates, the aphorism about the Devil quoting scripture often gets lobbed in my general direction.
I had some Word of Faith devotees- you know, those who followed televangelist Bob Tilton?- approach me (and some of my fellow HS grads) one night. By the time I was finished arguing with them about the Gift Of Tongues, they were in full, stammering retreat.
* as in, owned & operated by Catholic monks, but open to boys of any faith.
Tilton. Yeesh. One of the "send me money and be saved", "cast your bread upon the waters" frauds.