I watched a string of crude profanity and a lecture on atheism land in my notifications like a wild pitch aimed right for my head. My first instinct as a former teacher was to lob a verbal grenade back, but then I remembered a specific promise about how Jesus handles a bruised reed. If you’ve ever felt the sting of an unfair insult, there is a better way to respond than swinging back.
Imagine standing before the massive Hoover Dam and announcing to the world’s finest engineers that you built the whole thing yourself. Every turbine, every tunnel, every ton of concrete. The laughter would echo for miles. But what if you told them something even more ridiculous? What if the claim that followed made the first one sound reasonable? A retired teacher walks inside one of history’s greatest engineering feats and makes an argument most people have already accepted without realizing how absurd it sounds.