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[Each month in 2025, we repeat the Grif Net email/blog posts for an entire
week from 25 years ago – March 2000]
In a suburban city school, a young woman teacher of obvious liberal
tendencies explains to her class of small children that she is an atheist.
She asks her class if they are atheist too. Not really knowing what atheism
is, but wanting to be like their teacher, their hands explode into the air
like freshly fired fireworks.
There is, however, one exception. A girl named Lucy has not gone along with
the crowd. The teacher asks her why she has decided to be different.
“Because I’m not an atheist.”
“Then,” asks the teacher, “what are you?”
“I’m a Christian.”
The teacher is a little perturbed now, her face slightly red. She asks Lucy
why she is a Christian.
“Well, my Mom is a Christian and my dad is a Christian, so I am a
Christian.” The teacher is now angry.
“That’s no reason,” she says loudly. “What if your Mom was a moron and your
dad was a moron. What would you be then?”
A pause and a little smile. “Then,” says Lucy, “I’d be an atheist.”
~~
Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net
“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”
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