Just last week my cousin from Texas, whom I have not heard from for many years, forwarded me one of those emails. You know the ones that so many of us have gotten with the smears and lies about Senator Barack Obama:
"Barack Obama supports infanticide." "Barack Obama was sworn in on the Koran." "Barack Obama is the anti-Christ" ...really, the anti-Christ?
You might have heard these rumors them from friends, family, neighbors, others at your church. You might have heard them on your local Christian radio station, or seen them in your hometown paper. But most likely you have gotten in the in your email inbox.
That is why the Matthew 25 Network has launched a new website to respond to these smears: PutAwayFalsehood.com. On 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.
Scripture tells us, even when we disagree, to "clothe [our]selves with humility toward one another" (1 Pet. 5:5) and to "put away falsehood" (Eph. 4:25). This website is our best attempt to respond to the distortions and misleading information being circulated within our community about Senator Obama.
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.
Can we lift up a better kind of Christian witness in politics? What do you think?
Leave me your comments here.
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Really Reaganite? Who are you fronting for? I find what is obvious is that you 'obviously' have your own agenda that you want to pursue here. You managed to find the PAC disclaimer but somehow were not able to navigate to the BIG yellow button "Learn About Us" smack dab in the middle of the home page. Let me help
http://www.matthew25.org/about.htm
Please do a little more simple browsing before you try to provoke.
"This is disengenous if not simply dishonest. That, too, is obvious."
OK...then how should they approach the lies being spread by Christians?
Matthew 25 Network is funded by a bunch of folks, I'm a donor, who are largely clergy, theologians, and students - as well as law folks - they are not a front for anybody.
Matt 25 has had a several events with a mix of religious and political leaders - that, and online donations, is where the bulk of their funding comes from.
If they truly wanted to be a "front" they would have been a 527 - but a PAC has to make their donors public.
should have been lay not law
I just wanted to reply to the questions around who is Matthew 25. We are a group of grassroots Christians from around the country, and a diverse array of religious spokespeople, who you can see on the About Us page at our site: www.matthew25.org
We are legally organized as a Federal Political Action Committee that allows us to directly support and endorse candidates. The legal language at the bottom of our page is required to show that we are not directly connect to the Obama for America campaign. We are an independent group.
If you go through our Falsehood page- you can find the citations at the bottom for every issue we raise. We tried very hard to just stick to the facts on that page. Many of us do not agree with Senator Obama on every issue- but we wanted people to have correct information.
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