First, I did not post this article to join the debate on what faith Obama keeps.
I think if you step back and look at this poll it tells you something significant. We have seen so much deception and spin over the last ten plus years that as a society, we don’t know what to trust. We no longer can trust a man at his word. Politicians have destroyed that trust.
I would even go further, that as a society we have destroyed that trust. We have little white lied ourselves into the situation where truth and honesty are not valued, and so are not upheld.
Christ said this would be part of the end times, as the Church began falling away and having less influence on our culture, we would see increases in sin and deception, until it became like the Days of Noah.
Think about it, and look at events through this third lens of scripture….
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Obama a Muslim? Rumors gain steam, defying facts
By HILLEL ITALIE
The Associated Press
Thursday, August 19, 2010; 10:00 PM
NEW YORK — “President Obama is a Muslim.” “He’s not an American citizen.” “He wasn’t even born here.”None of this is true. But to surprising levels, it is believed.Blame it on the media, or on human nature. All presidents deal with image problems – that they’re too weak or too belligerent, too far left or far right. But Obama also faces questions over documented facts, in part because some people identify more with the rumormongers than the debunkers.
“Trust and distrust – that explains almost all of it,” says Nicholas DiFonzo, professor of psychology at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an expert on rumor and gossip research. “We are in such a highly polarized political environment. Our country is sorting itself into more closely knit, opposing factions each year” – factions, DiFonzo suggests, that in turn become “echo chambers” for factoids that aren’t fact at all.
Nearly one in five people, or 18 percent, said they think Obama is Muslim, up from the 11 percent who said so in March 2009, according to a poll released Thursday. The proportion who correctly say he is a Christian is just 34 percent, down from 48 percent in March of last year.
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