RE: I'm sick and tired of this.. please be advised: the following is a rant!
October 22, 2010 at 1:14 am
(October 21, 2010 at 7:26 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:My point is that say 1 in 10,000 people would have believed Jesus for example and become a follower. If he met 1,000,000 people then he would get 100 followers.
All of which assumes that there was any such person.
Marshal Applewhite probably met fewer than 0.1% of 1,000,000 people before he found 39 followers who believed in him strongly enough to take their own lives at his prompting. And Jesus and his groupies lived during a time when most people were illiterate, sand uperstition and belief in holymen was far more prevalent.