{"id":42696,"date":"2014-05-01T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=42696"},"modified":"2022-02-01T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T21:05:06","slug":"love-the-answer-you-gave-to-an-atheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/love-the-answer-you-gave-to-an-atheist\/","title":{"rendered":"Love the answer you gave to an atheist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m a fan of your page on Facebook and greatly appreciate your answers. You do a fantastic job. Love\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/hopefully-religion-will-be-forgotten-in-the-future\/\">this past answer you gave to the atheist<\/a>. Keep up the good work and thank you.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>I really appreciate the encouragement.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I&#8217;m a fan of your page on Facebook and greatly appreciate your answers. You do a fantastic job. Love\u00a0this past answer you gave to the atheist. Keep up the good work and thank you. 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