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I know you mean well. I am a software analyst, I spend most of my days working and living in critical thought. I serve on the boards of directors of a several non-profits and have standing invitations to serve on others.
The bible is full of examples of how to apply religious conviction to the challenges of daily life in a illogical world.

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The power of memorization goes beyond our ability to externalize the things we know- like quote a poem or passage. The greater power of memorization is the ability to internalize the influences we want to emulate.
As a child I watched my dad memorize scriptures. As I was able I too memorized scriptures and although I have memorized two books of the Bible and some other large segments, I pale in comparison to my dad who memorized the entire new testament in english, half of it in Spanish, and continues daily memorization to this day.
The power of internalizing these things is our ability to apply something quickly as life happens.
Most households have several bibles, works of poetry, plays by shakespeare. How many of us are influenced by them in our daily life?

All of us who memorized them.

When everything else is taken away, do we long for our gadgets to look up our own identity?

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