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Half the beer of front, half of the beer when you deliver.

I'm constantly amazed at how everyone here on /. just glosses over the serious real-world difficulties of implementing such policies.

Come on, just HOW are we going to equitably determine a priori how much beer is "half of all the beer you can drink"? This is a "non-trivial" problem with significant temporal, and FAIK, quantum entanglement.

At the very least, projecting such a value would require significant data collection over a long period of time to determine whether variables such as the quality of the beer affect the projected consumtion volume. (Evidence from Merkle, for instance, suggests that such quality considerations may have a large effect, and in fact are the vapid result of feminism ruining our beer. Not to mention the further legal and ethical considerations involved if you have to drive yourself back home...) :-)

Might I suggest that a solid, rational approach to Chrisitanity might well let you find both the Truth therein as well as acknowledgement that we must *think*, and are in fact, "to think God's thoughts after Him." (I will also submit this is far different than "testing" God, which is wrong.)

I'd suggest starting with John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, the clarity of which should more than make up for any wooly thinking your upbringing might have left you with... :-) If that's a bit too ambitious for you, try Jonathan Edwards, or any of several excellent current writers at sites like antithesis.com (Warning, requires IE - yuk), or Credenda-Agenda. You may not like these(or even agree with them), but you can't argue they're not thoughtful and well-reasoned. These sites drive some of my Baptist friends to absolute distraction...

We hold a national worship service that can only be described as a theological crapfest, and more faux-evangelicals will be distraught over the use of crapfest than are upset by the worship of other gods.

We hold a national worship service that can only be described as a theological crapfest, and more faux-evangelicals will be distraught over the use of crapfest than are upset by the worship of other gods.

Congratulations, you've just (almost) described the ultimate in today's educational curricula (which is really that of the medeival period rediscovered) - it's called "Classical Christian Education", and is taking the country by storm, first in private lower schools, where the curruculum is based on the Trivium (Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric), then in College (or University, a term which can have no real meaning outside of a Christian context...) where this was traditionally followed with the Quadivium of geometry, astronomy, music, and arithmetic.

And yes, there are a few places where this sort of thing can be found, although it's taking a while to reclaim these lost and time-proven methods. Read Doug Wilson's excellent book Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning for the full story. A few good web resources on the subject:

The Lost Tools of Learning, Dorothy Sayers classic 1947 essay on the subject, and a large influence on the Classical Christian School movement. Read this!

A good interview with Wilson about Classical Chrisitan Education.

The Association of Classical and Christian Schools, the accrediting body and nerve center of sorts for Classical Christian Schools.

Credenda/Agenda, sort of the journal of this movement - read, learn, and understand. It's also quite funny at times - the writing is usually quite good, and often excellent.

Finally, at the college level, this methodology is just beginning to appear, check out New St. Andrews College for details on a college designed for incoming high-school graduates who are already better educated than many 4-year liberal arts college grads.

You make a very good point. Talk to someone Islamic. I am not Islamic, but a rather identify with the type of 'Reformed' Christianity espoused as websites like Antithesis.com and the Credenda Agenda.

That said, I know enough to know that it is ONLY the most radical and a minority of Islamics who preach violence. Most, if not all, condemn such CSCB terrorist acts. It would be victory for the chicken-shit-coward-bastard (CSCB)-terrorists if they could take these sad events and make us hate our Islamic neihbor.

While we may disagree about God and country, I would prefer to debate our differences over some cold beer and hummus, as opposed to hot lead and fire.

Several posters have commented on the watery stuff that passes for beer among much of the American populace.

The following link explains how American beer got so wimpy - it was the feminists, who deviously eliminated real man's beer:

http://www.credenda.org/issues/vol1 1/reci11-2.htm