[lbo-talk] Re:$20 million fire tied to eco-terrorists

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Tue Aug 12 16:12:07 PDT 2003


On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:01:03 -0400, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: Not only Jesus was an adman.
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> Doug

Bestseller in the 20's, on JC as adman.

http://hallchristians.com/index.php/Mode/product/AsinSearch/0965289419/name/The%2520Man%2520Nobody%2520Knows.htm
> ... The Man Nobody Knows
In his second major work, The Man Nobody Knows, author Bruce Barton portrays Jesus Christ as a salesman--not an ordinary salesman, but the world's greatest salesman--and exhorts readers to profit by his example. Additionally, the story of the carpenter from Nazareth, Barton argues, is "the story of the founder of modern business (12). Throughout the book, Barton paints Christ in a positive color. He disavows the "wicked falsehood that [Christ] never laughed" (23), from inference of the New Testament--the men who became his disciples never would have been attracted to a man who demonstrated Miltonian characteristics. Further, Barton comments on Christ's leadership, as "only strong magnetic men inspire great enthusiasm and build strong orginizations. Yet Jesus built the greatest orginization of all...He picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an orginization that conquered the world" (35-36). This act could have only been done by a supreme business executive, a man who knew how to persuade others, and was so passionate in his rhetoric that men would be willing to give their lives for his cause. Hence, Christ was the greatest salesman of all... -- Michael Pugliese



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