Christian Urban Legends

An urban legend is a kind of modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. The term is often used with a meaning similar to the expression "apocryphal story." Urban legends are not necessarily untrue, but they are often false, distorted, exaggerated, or sensationalized. Despite the name, urban legends do not necessarily take place in an urban setting. The name is designed to differentiate them from traditional folklore in preindustrial times.

Urban legends are sometimes repeated in news stories and, in recent years, distributed by e-mail . People frequently say such tales happened to a "friend of a friend"—so often, in fact, that " friend of a friend ", or "FOAF", has become a commonly used term for this sort of story.

Truth or Fiction

1. "The Beast," a supercomputer in Belgium, is Being Used to Track Every Human Being on Earth.
2. Soviet Scientists Drilled into Hell.
3. Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the noted atheist, has proposed that the Federal Communications Commission ban all religious broadcasting.
4. Darwin repudiated evolution and accepted Jesus before he died.
5. The Procter and Gamble logo is Satanic.
6. The Christian Church during the Middle Ages promoted the idea that the earth was flat.
7. CBS is being forced to take "Touched by an Angel" off the air, because they talk about God too much.
8. Halloween was a Satanic holiday.
9. An English fisherman was swallowed by a whale, hence proving the story of Jonah.
10. The candy cane was made by a Christian Indiana confectioner.