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^ 1 w b ? Broth Gille ^ for h abras preac style B0DY is ju ENTER (ALBE CONTR *5; I ? ft s= : Jin OVERS IAL . ) lii. > jy'0lL.,,v I SIEB Ji ^ M SAVED! I PHOTOS BY TREVOR SPENCER j LEILJ ITHER DISCIPLES i ,SJ[?P?JL., DO THE ] STOMP ! I f -vwm-'^vh usnn^H x*". Say Brothe r> i.< T n f ?/ t v r i n v i. For nearly four ho attention of much of the Russell House pa by Brother Jim, mad nreach the gosnel of. r o r By many accounts and by the react for most of the afternoon, Brother Jim's Christ-like "I was appalled to say the least at t junior Biology major and also a non-dei Wilson was on her way to class, or Brother Jim's message. Wilson stopped Christians look bad, she said. "People who might be thinking ab( turned off," she said. "His attitude was 1 Wilson at one point was told she w temptress, with a low neckline and earrings. Others were also angered by the, at times, categorical damnation and sweeping generalizations. Crin Rnvt a i/Aiinn cK man 1-.1 111 1JVJAI, U JUUllg, JV/VT 1JU U1U1I with plans to one day become a Rabbi, dislikes religious ignorance. "I can't stand to let something like this go on, someone out here, condemning all these people by his word," Boxt said. "His word is no more than a human being's." Chris McCormick thought it was good that ideas were aired out, even though when he read Brother Jim Bible vpr?p? that sppttipH tn rnntradirt thp evangelist's message he was ignored. "I don't think that he won anyone over," McCormick said. "I think he probably made a lot of people angry." McCormick found two problems with Brother Jim's message. "He claimed to be morally perfect and said that people needed to be morally perfect," he said. 'The question that follow what is morally perfect. "He also claimed that he has the au fection was," McCormick said. "I found McCormick remembered Brother J killed, and that a comparison to Adolf H McCormick said that Brother Jim appro good. Wilson thought Brother Jim's clair impressive. "I think he really believes 1 said. "But you don't say 'you Queer, yo An times the afternoon was filled v some people were merely heckling, othc that Brother Jim had made. "I think the message of Jesus and tl should be one of love, and is one of lov< to do things out of love, seems to be cor "I don't see any love in that." WHAT , :r Jim? )r Spencer urs, Jim Gilles held the the crowd gathered on tio. Gilles, who goes e a stop at USC to Jesus Christ. Jons of the crowd, many of whom debated i remarks were no more than haterul and not he things he said," said Joy Wilson, a lominational Christian, le she eventually skipped, when she heard because she didn't like people to make )ut having a relationship with Christ were nothing like the Christ he professed." as going to hell because she was a "He claimed to be morally perfect and said that people needed to be morally per fect. The question that follows naturally from that is how do you know what is MORALLY PERFECT." Chris McCormick Junior s naturally from that is how do you know ithority to tell other people what moral perI that pretty hard to accept." im saying that homosexuals should be litler who killed homosexuals was made, ved of Hitler in that regard and said he was n that he was sinless since he w^s 18 was ie is bringing people to Christ," Wilson u're going to hell'." vith confrontation and verbal slurs, while :rs tried to debate the claims of Christianity he New Testament and the Bible in general ;," McCormick said. "He, while claiming idemning people.