{"id":28,"date":"2008-07-31T16:12:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/07\/put-away-falsehood-1.html"},"modified":"2008-07-31T16:12:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:12:02","slug":"put-away-falsehood-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/07\/put-away-falsehood-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Put Away Falsehood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just last week my cousin from Texas, whom I have not heard from for many years, forwarded me one of those<\/span>\u00a0emails. You know the ones that so many of us have gotten with the smears and lies about Senator Barack Obama:<\/p>\n

“Barack
\nObama supports infanticide.”<\/span> “Barack Obama was sworn in on the
\nKoran.”<\/span> \u00a0“Barack Obama is the anti-Christ” \u00a0<\/span>…really, the anti-Christ?<\/p>\n

You might have heard these rumors them from friends, family, neighbors,
\nothers at your church. You
\nmight have heard them on your local Christian radio station, or seen them in
\nyour hometown paper. \u00a0But most likely you have gotten in the in your email inbox.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That is why the Matthew 25 Network<\/a> has launched a new website to respond to these smears: PutAwayFalsehood.com.<\/a>\u00a0On the site you can see the Falsehoods and the Facts, and even use our online tool to respond directly to the emails you’ve found in your Inbox.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Scripture tells us, even when we disagree, to “clothe
\n[our]selves with humility toward one another” (1 Pet. 5:5) and to “put away
\nfalsehood” (Eph. 4:25). This website<\/a> is our best attempt to respond to the
\ndistortions and misleading information being circulated within our community about
\nSenator Obama. \u00a0<\/p>\n

So often the world sees these kinds of misleading attacks coming from the Christian community. It is in part of what has given a Christian witness in politics a bad name.<\/p>\n

Can we lift up a better kind of Christian witness in politics? \u00a0What do you think? \u00a0<\/p>\n

Leave me your comments here.<\/p>\n

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