by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
Time and again falsified information is being circulated by certain right-wing Christian groups in the USA (and also abroad) that claim this or that as regards to the current US President, Barak Obama, and his administrative team.
That is when the lies do not concern the President direct as to his birth place and certificates. They even went as far as “producing” a Kenyan birth certificate in the Name of Barak Hussein Obama but which was on an Australian birth certificate. “Though shalt get thy facts right and thy material before running with it” should also be a commandment.
Recently a document was circulated on the Internet via email and distributed widely from a source called the “Christian Research”, which turns out to be nothing but some half-wit on his own, that was half-truth and outright falsehoods and lies being told about the “czars” of the Obama government.
In that document Major General Jonathan Scott Gration, the Sudan Czar, was claimed to be a Native of Democratic Republic of Congo. And that was just for starters.
Those machinations, however, do not just emanate from that source mentioned above. Another one of those sources is “WorldNetDaily” (WND) – claiming the subtitle “A Free Press For A Free People” and also appertaining to be Christian.
Unless I am mistaken one of the ten commandments state “though shalt not bear false witness”. What happened to that? Let me guess... when applied to anyone claimed to be an Antichrist it is no longer valid?
The same things happened when the debate was on about a nigh universal health care for US citizens, modeled to some degree on that of Britain and Canada, when the self-same kind of people claimed that in Britain cancer patients had very little survival chance, totally discounting the the world's top cancer hospitals are in Britain and not the USA and that they are part of the NHS.
Further claims were made as to Prof Hawkins and that, if he would be living in Britain he would be left to die under the NHS; the laugh only being that Prod Hawkins lives in Britain and is being treated by the NHS.
Those are just a small number of cases where those Christian right think that they are right and have the right to lie in order to bamboozle the people, and many believe the “news” that is being put out by the likes of “WND” and others, including the likes of “Prison Planet”, etc.
It is such a shame that so many of the American public, especially those that are supposedly Bible-believing Christians, seem to be unable to think for themselves. In the same way as many of those self-same Christians seem to believe that they must go to organized Bible study to understand the Scriptures. The self-same study groups where they are then told that this or that passage means this and that; stuff that is not in the text, and where again and again passages are taken completely out of context, in both the scriptural one and the historic one.
But, I guess, that is all too difficult to understand for some and it also, it would appear, that the end justifies the means, and that lying and such is permitted in this cause too.
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