I have a tendency to be very excited to learn that a famous dead person was Christian. One of those people was Bob Marley, haha. Hey, Bob’s cool. I just heard lots of stories about him becoming a Christian before he died or something. I never did my research but simply re-told that story to other people.
One other such person whom atheists and theists are fighting to get on their “side” is Albert Einstein. However it is not important who stands for Christianity! The credibility of the God’s gospel does not depend on man’s fame. The truth stands on its own.
Albert Mohler in this post puts it like this:
The emergence of the letter from Albert Einstein to Eric Gutkind goes a long way toward setting the record straight. Evangelical Christians are prone to over-excitement when any famous person, living or dead, is claimed as a believer in God. This is not an attractive habit, and it often leads to intellectual embarrassment.
Imagine the 1st century church, there were no celebrities believing in Jesus except for a bunch of fishermen and common folk. Did that hinder them from believing in God? No. It should not hinder our belief in God even if no famous person believed in God!
