Was Hitler Gay?
Scott Lively's popular book is now noted to be nothing more than a vivid stretch of Scott's imagination. The historical accuracy is void. The Southern Poverty Law Center even lists the book as part of hate literature. That is a work designed to promote hatred of a group with no serious scholarship. The story fits amidst the shelves of other conspiracy myths that float occasionally on emails or Christian talk radio. Other rumors that abound include the Proctor and Gamble story about the company making a secret pact with Satan. (Many believe the Amway crowd started this one to boost sales of their pyramid marketing.) We get the occasional Madeline Murray O'Hare story about the atheist starting a bill to take Christian radio off the air. This is a grand feat for someone who has been dead for several years. A recent hoax was played on the nation from Falwell U. Liberty University hired a seminary president by the name of Ergun Caner. He wrote a best seller named Inside Islam. The book propelled him to national fame and notoriety. He was a guest expert on government panels not to mention a featured speaker at Bible conferences around the nation. Truth was Caner had a vivid imagination. His claims to having been raised a terrorist and participant in Islam did not add up. He was dismissed from his leadership at the campus for "self contradictory" statements. That's a euphemistic way of saying his pen wrote big checks that his life's record could not cash. The top ten list of public school problems compared with a generation ago is another myth that keeps getting mileage. It was traced by 20/20 and a Yale research group all the way to Texan Cullen Davis. Davis was asked to reveal how he came up with such a survey that had been quoted from the Whitehouse to just about every school board election in the country. He confessed he did not have data, just thought it might be that way. The President recently responded to rumors about his life by stating he did not want to walk around with a birth certificate pasted to his forehead. Unfortunately this attitude seems to be typical across the land. It fails to take into account that the myths and stories keep being published and pretending they do not count is not lessening the impact of the messages.
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