In a bible thumping contest how would you fair?

I can hold my own.

I've studied the cursed book.

it's all indexed, highlighted, notated and ready to go.

Fare, is the word.

And what you say is pretty depressing because what you need is just the right word for the occasion and no more.

The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

Point taken?

Bare hands, sticks, iron clubs--- my success as a thumper would depend on what I'm allowed to thump the Bible with.

I'd keep everybody else as busy as a one-legged man in an *** kicking contest.

I thump a mean bible.

poorly