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It wasn't actually a muscular condition. My friend is surprisingly unwilling to spread this around and only told me under the extreme circumstances of me telling her I might be about to become an atheist. I wanted to change enough that if she read this on the Internet she wouldn't know it was about her.
So there was a clear potential payoff to her desires in giving you a miracle story - keeping you in the fold.
I don't question her good will toward you, but I've found that the correspondence theory of truth is not as widely held as those who rely on it believe. One alternative is that truths are useful statements, whether or not they accurately model the state of the world.
Amusingly all the people I know who reject it are atheists (of the SJW type).
The real joke, that few have gotten the punchline for, is that SJWs aren't atheists, they're puritanical theocrats.
SJWs are special in terms of the correspondence theory of truth in that they'll explicity reject it, while many, many more of varying ideological persuasions only implicitly reject it, in failing to find it particularly motivating.
They may be special, but hardly unique -- it's not hard to find environmentalists who also reject it, for example.
What do you mean by "not atheists"?