re some thoughts in article bissda saturn wwc edu bissda saturn wwc edu dan lawrence bissell writes it appears that walla walla college will fill the same role in alt atheist that allegheny college fills in alt fan dan quayle first i want to start right out and say that i m a christian it makes sense to be one have any of you read tony campollo s book liar lunatic or the real thing i might be a little off on the title but he writes the book anyway he was part of an effort to destroy christianity in the process he became a christian himself converts to xtianity have this tendency to excessively darken their pre xtian past frequently falsely anyone who embarks on an effort to destroy xtianity is suffering from deep megalomania a defect which is not cured by religious conversion the arguements he uses i am summing up the book is about whether jesus was god or not i know many of you don t believe but listen to a different perspective for we all have something to gain by listening to what others have to say different perspective different perspective bwahahahahahahahah the book says that jesus was either a liar or he was crazy a modern day koresh or he was actually who he said he was sigh perhaps big j was just mistaken about some of his claims perhaps he was normally insightful but had a few off days perhaps many most of the statements attributed to jesus were not made by him but were put into his mouth by later authors other possibilities abound surely someone seriously examining this question could come up with a decent list of possible alternatives unless the task is not serious examination of the question much less destroying xtianity but rather religious salesmanship some reasons why he wouldn t be a liar are as follows who would die for a lie how many germans died for nazism how many russians died in the name of the proletarian dictatorship how many americans died to make the world safe for democracy what a silly question wouldn t people be able to tell if he was a liar people gathered around him and kept doing it many gathered from hearing or seeing someone who was or had been healed call me a fool but i believe he did heal people is everyone who performs a healing god niether was he a lunatic would more than an entire nation be drawn to someone who was crazy it s probably hard to draw an entire nation to you unless you are crazy very doubtful in fact rediculous for example anyone who is drawn to david koresh is obviously a fool logical people see this right away therefore since he wasn t a liar or a lunatic he must have been the real thing anyone who is convinced by this laughable logic deserves to be a xtian some other things to note he fulfilled loads of prophecies in the psalms isaiah and elsewhere in hrs alone this in his betrayal and crucifixion i don t have my bible with me at this moment next time i write i will use it don t bother many of the prophecies were fulfilled only in the eyes of xtian apologists who distort the meaning of isaiah and other ot books
