Many of these hoaxes are specifically designed to make Christians look foolish and ignorant. That’s not very hard since we are so obliging about jumping on a bandwagon without checking out the facts. It is beyond me how one hoax can last for 25 years (The FCC and religious broadcasting), but it has – with the help of gullible Christians.
John Williams, author of “The Cost of Deception,” relates that he was at a Christian Business Show in Oklahoma City in 1983. Two ladies at the show were hosting a booth to get signatures on a petition to the FCC about the religious broadcasting hoax. That was before email, and these papers were copied and recopied so many times that they were sometimes difficult to read. When Mr. Williams informed these ladies that the petition was a hoax, Mr. Williams says, “they looked at each other for a moment with expressions of bewilderment and disbelief. An hour later they closed their booth and left.” (The Cost of Deception, John Williams, Broadman & Holman, p. 42).
Checking things out before we pass them out would save a lot of embarrassment to ourselves and to our integrity. It would also not leave any room for the world to think we are ignorant and foolish.
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