"The reason I'm fishin' 4 a new religion
is my church makes me fall asleep
They're praising a God that watches you weep
and doesn't want you to do a damn thing about it
When they want change the preacher says "shout it"
Does shouting bring about change? I doubt it"

- Speech, Arrested Development

"I think that there are a good many points upon which I agree with Christ a great deal more than the professing Christians do. I do not know that I could go with Him all the way, but I could go with Him much further than most professing Christians can."

- Bertrand Russell

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime."

- Annonymous

What do all of these men have in common?

• Plato was a disciple of Socrates; Aristotle was a disciple of Plato.
• James Coburn and Kareem Abdul Jabbar were both disciples of Bruce Lee.
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi; Mahatma Gandhi, in a practical sense, was a disciple of Jesus.
• Malcolm X was a disciple of Elijah Muhammad; Elijah Muhammad was a disciple of W.D. Fard.

You need not to have met a person in the flesh to be their disciple... Only a student of their teaching and/or a practioner of their way of life.

Typically, when we think of the word "disciple", depending on our background, one of two things come to mind: either a devoted follower of some charismatic teacher with esoteric teaching and strict and rigid lifestyle expectations for his followers; or the 12 men who were deeply committed to Jesus and his message. In a sense, both of these conceptions are simultaneously accurate and inaccurate in that the teaching of a disciple need not always be esoteric, and in that while the term “disciple” did apply to Jesus' Twelve, it did not apply to them exclusively.

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