SELF KILLING

You get Christian* apologists stating that the Bible story of Jesus has to be true because the Apostles and other followers willingly went to their death for Jesus. After all, who would die for a made up tale?
Four words; Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr.
Unless you think the forty who died were all whisked off by the spacecraft in the tail of Hale Bop comet and are now living the life of Riley in some plain above humanity, not fully material yet not totally spiritual?**

*Hell, I've said it. In fact, this and some of the writings of C S Lewis seemed eminently reasonable when it came to presenting the case for Christianity.
**Another slightly different version was, who would die for something they knew was a lie? Both the murdered Christians and self killing Heaven's Gate people believed their doctrines without any doubt. Can you really say one was true and the other not? By what criteria? Certainly not the level of commitment and passion of the belief of the followers.