12 Unbelievably Bad Marketers in Jerusalem

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Imagine meeting a very, very joyouslly excited man who could not wait to tell you a story. He tells you about a man who turned an office water cooler into wine, brought a rotting corpse back to life, caused a herd of pigs to drown themselves, attacked a group of bankers with a whip, healed cancers and blindness with a touch, and is volunteering to be tortured to death so I can be relieved of the burdens of my human weaknesses.All I have to do is drop my job and responsibilities and this fellow will take me to this magical man. Aside from considering  the potential of having a friend who can make water into wine and terrorize bankers I would move as far away from this crazy person as possible. Why  should I lend this absurd tale any credence simply because it comes from the iron age?

And yet people do give such stories credence, and make life changing decisions based on nothing more than a story and a feeling. That a handful of people believed the stories and promoted them does not speak to the truth of the stories themselves. Even the most ridiculous story in the world will find its own group of gullible proponents.