In 1917, famed American journalist H. L. Mencken concocted a story that has never completely come undone. The fact that everyone so easily believed his hoax amazed even him.
A writer at the time for the New York Evening Mail, Mencken wrote a bogus history about the bathtub. Eight and a half years later, he confessed it was all a lie. But by then his “facts” had made it around the globe, and nothing he did or said could retract them, leading Mencken to conclude, “No normal human being wants to hear the truth. It is the passion of a small and aberrant minority. . . . They are hated for telling it while they live, and when they die they are swiftly forgotten. What remains in the world . . . is a series of long-tested and solidly agreeable lies.”1
Today billions of people around the world believe all sorts of solidly agreeable lies. Lies about God. Lies about Jesus. Lies about creation, morality, Israel, salvation, heaven, hell, judgment, and much more.
For example, millions believe Israelis are “occupiers” of Islamic land, even though the Jewish people (whose very name comes from the word Judah) have lived there for 3,400 years, including 2,000 years before Islam even existed.
They believe the Holocaust of World War II never happened, even though the Nazis themselves documented everything meticulously. […]
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