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The forwarded fiction keeps coming, in spite of my blog on 6-4-05, "I
Got Some Leaven In My E-Mail." This time it was about the price of
gasoline and what we should do about it. The exact letter was
debunked over a year ago by Snopes.com (Urban Legends).
The thing that bothers me is that my mailing list is made up mostly
of Christians, and Christians are circulating fiction and "urban
legends" to each other without checking them out. Do you know that
non-Christians are doing the same thing with the subject of
"religion," and often, Christianity in particular? I just checked
"religion" in Snopes.com and found twenty-five false statements
being circulated under "religion."
When we do this, we give credence to the unbeliever's assertion that
we Christians are easily hoaxed--the biggest ones being our belief
in the Bible and Christianity. This is my "FW: FW:" to you to stop
the fiction. Check it out first with TruthOrFiction.com or
Snopes.com. Don't give the impression that Christians don't check
out the truth.
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* TruthOrFiction.com | * Snopes.com