‘Louisiana Floods Destroy Home of Christian Leader Who Says God Sends Natural Disasters to Punish Gay People’ In January 2021, a screenshot of a purported headline about a homophobic pastor who lost his home to flooding in a rather ironic way made the usual rounds.
Does a Potential U.S. Supreme Court Candidate Belong to a Group That Inspired ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’? Judge Amy Coney Barrett has been criticized over her links to a religious sect that refers to its female leaders as "handmaidens."
The Anti-Semitic Origins of ‘You Cannot Legislate the Poor Into Prosperity’ A quote attributed to an evangelical leader actually originated with a Holocaust denier.
Did the Democratic Party Pass a Resolution ‘Against Christianity’? A blog post attempted to distort the meaning of a DNC resolution supporting nonbelievers.
Was a Large ‘Make the Gospel Great Again’ Billboard Put Up in Missouri? On November 3rd, 2018, just days before the United States held hotly-contested midterm elections, rumors appeared of a billboard by the side of a Missouri interstate that featured United States President Donald Trump’s face with a strange, slightly ominous Biblical message: It references John 1:14, which reads in full: The Word became flesh and made his […]
House Democrats Draft Bill Making Eating at Chick-fil-A a Hate Crime-Fiction! A website that publishes works of "Christian news satire" is behind false reports that House Democrats introduced a bill making it a hate crime to eat at Chick-fil-A because of the chain's conservative views.
California Bill Requires Bibles to Be Registered as Assault Weapons-Fiction! A satirical story about California requiring Christians to register bibles as assault weapons was mistaken for a factual news report in May 2018.
AmazonSmile Removes Pro-Family Groups from Eligible Charities-Mostly Truth! AmazonSmile Removes Pro-Family Groups from Eligible Charities-Mostly Truth! Summary of eRumor: AmazonSmile has removed charities identifying themselves as “pro-family” from its list of charities that are eligible to receive donations. The Truth: AmazonSmile has removed a number of “pro-family” charitable groups from the program in recent years for violating its terms of service. Most recently, […]
Boy Scouts Lose 425,000 Members After Announcing Name Change-Truth! & Unproven! It's true that the Mormon church ended its sponsorship of the Boy Scouts of America after the group changed its name, but it's not clear that all 425,000 Mormon scouts will quit.
Pope Francis Says Gun Owners Can't Call Themselves Christians-Mostly Fiction! Pope Francis Gun Owners Aren’t Christian, Calls to Ban All Weapons-Misleading! Summary of eRumor: Pope Francis said that gun owners and those who support gun rights can’t call themselves Christian anymore and are hypocrites. Pope Francis also called for a ban on all weapons. The Truth: Pope Francis has repeatedly spoken out against weapons of […]
