(November 12, 2013 at 10:46 am)ronedee Wrote:(November 11, 2013 at 12:04 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: 2000 years from now there will be Elivsists all over the place proclaiming Elvis as the true son of God and rose from the dead.
None of my kids (teens) even know who Elvis is now! Much less care...
Plus, Elvis didn't predict his own death(which probably would've been easy to do), or rising from it! His followers said "he never died".
Nor, did Elvis promise salvation, or even a new cadillac to his followers.
I think you are giving Elvis way too much credit! He proved himself human in many ways. And his legacy is fading away in nursing homes as we speak.
You bring up an interesting point (although I just polled a roomful of people in their early twenties and couldn't find one who didn't know who Elvis was).
However, while it's true that he never claimed to be more than human and no one else claimed he was (that I know of); STILL sightings of him persisted for decades after his death.
Imagine if he had been perceived as divine and the focus of a new religion before he died. The sightings would be cited (sorry) as proof that he really WAS divine and touted as evidence of the religion's validity.
