Here's an amusing little story for a cloudy Wednesday morning, the Australian chap in the picture above is Jesus, yes the real Jesus of Nazareth! Former IT specialist Alan John Miller, or "AJ" as he prefers to be known, runs a Christian cult known as the Divine Truth from his home near the small town of Kingaroy in the state of Queensland, Australia and claims to be Jesus reincarnated. I watched his video and he seems to be sincere enough, lots of talk of love and human solidarity (especially "love", if you know what I mean), references to Bible characters and insider anecdotes about things like who was at the crucifixion and performing miracles; I guess no one can prove him wrong. He also claims to have visited the "spirit world" and talked to Plato and Socrates, personally I would have gone for Darwin and Alexander the great but "AJ" is clearly a dedicated Brazilian football fan.
For me, what's more amusing than this all too familiar cultist in-group, out-group mind trick is the huffing and puffing going on in blogs and news articles from Christians demanding "proof" that this person is in fact Jesus reincarnated, don't they understand, it's not about proof, it's about faith... After all, the only difference between a cult and a religion is that in a religion the person who knows its all a scam is dead.
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