Chick-fil-A fighting back with fake Facebook accounts?

Here’s an interesting development. A post on FailBlog is suggesting the possibility that Chick-fil-A (or their designated PR firm) may be creating fake Facebook accounts, complete with stock photo profile pics, in order to try and make it look like they stopped carrying Muppet kids meal toys out of safety concerns, instead of losing access to them due to their outrageous bigotry. If true, that’s a “brilliant” PR move.

Consider the source—FailBlog is not exactly known for rigorous journalistic standards—but the screen shots are at least amusing.

 

Gospel Disproof #50: Verbal answers to prayer

Here’s an interesting experiment you can try, at least if you’re living in America and I assume most other countries as well. Get a dollar bill (or equivalent local currency) but don’t look at it. Printed on that bill is a serial number. Ask God to tell you what that number is, and write down what He tells you. Then compare it to the number that is actually on the bill. Did God get it right?

Verbal answers to prayer are one example of a whole class of things you can ask God for that He will never be able to give you. Believers, naturally, have built up a vast network of excuses and rationalizations for why this should be so. For example, they will tell you that God takes offense when you ask for things like that—that you’re asking with wrong motives, that you’re testing Him, that you’re even rebelling against Him. And yet, these excuses run exactly counter to what believers think prayer is supposed to be.

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