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       2025-12-25T22:13:02+00:00
       
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       Merry Christmas!!!This year I was reminded of a time years ago when I had a diehard atheist as an acquaintance who had memorized almost the entire Bible and would use that memory to correct any claims he saw about the Bible for sport. He was rather entertaining at times and was way more interested in people being honest than their beliefs.At that same time I had a few friends who worked for a Christian youth ministry (I also did a bit of work on occasion for that ministry) that was very big on memorizing the Bible as 'the key' to a strong faith and, as such, regularly had challenges with the kids to win prizes and such.I lost track of all of those people over a decade ago but around that time I did learn that a young lady who I had known years before when she was very involved with that ministry as a high schooler and she was on the atheist side of agnostic. I had little time to speak to her but all that Bible memorization had no effect on her faith and she seemed to think it made the faith and the ministry more fragile. Then again, I think she was kind of surprised that I was still treating her like a person which is a bad statement about the ministry that she'd cut ties with them all and was surprised that someone from that time of her life was civil towards her.