The people responsible for Campus Crusade's Jesus Film claim that their movie has been seen or listened to by 6,223,295,000 people.
The CIA pegs world population at 6,602,224,175 (of which 4,795,026,261 are age 15 and over).
So does anyone besides me find Crusade's numbers incredible?
In·cred·i·ble (Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin incredibilis, from in- + credibilis credible)
1 : too extraordinary and improbable to be believed
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it also sounds maybe...disingenuous
ReplyDeletedisingenuous
(adj.) Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating:“an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who ... exemplified ... the most disagreeable traits of his time” (David Cannadine)
disingenuous (adj.) Pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated; faux-naïf.
disingenuous (adj.) Unaware or uninformed; naive.