It was in the early '80s when a couple of Witnesses came to our door, and my roommate and I were having a quiet afternnon that needed livening up, so we thought we'd invite them in and try to convert them to Judaism. We had quite a library at our disposal to disprove their interpretations: everything from Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Merton to a complete Babylonian Talmud. After a few hours, they left, and they were questioning some of the fundamental(ist) tenets of their faith. Was it the requirements of circumcision that prevented their conversion to Judaism? We mentioned that my roommate knew all the Rabbinic requirements but that he had a unsteady hand when it came to slicing bread.

-Charlie Baum, always in search of a good theological debate