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I remember once going out with friends to a Perkins kinda diner, I forget if this was my high school or college friends, maybe somewhere between 2004 and 2008. One out of five of us middle- to upper-middle class types had a cell phone with rudimentary internet functionality if that helps place it.

And in the parking lot was this guy with a bumper sticker, simple black on white block letters, coulda been printed off a home PC. A bible verse, but just the citation, Book Chapter:Verse.

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It was New Testament but not one of the gospels. Acts, maybe? Anyway us smartass atheists were kinda amused so we looked it up on the one phone, only we couldn\u2019t figure out why he would have this of all things on a bumper sticker. It didn\u2019t seem to be a sort of general life guidance thing, and we went around in circles trying to apply it to whatever Current Issue but couldn\u2019t make it cleanly fit to anything.

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We were settled on blowing it off like LOL, Christians, when I had a revelation and said \u201cYou know, laugh all you want, that guy just tricked us into 15 minutes of Bible study.\u201d

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Some kind of lesson there.

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