@duncan_bayne In fact she cited that very verse!
I hasten to insist (including to her in the moment) that the victory as an educator is emphatically not in persuading her to change her beliefs. The victory is in getting her to listen, to confront, to challenge, to engage, to doubt (with a worldly, lower-case d), and to learn.
My job isn't to produce atheists.
It is my privilege to help people learn to think.
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