I was amused by a Facebook post about the illogical spelling of "Queue" (Q followed by 4 silent letters). It means people standing in line, waiting for something.
A man in Dublin made up the meaningless word “quiz” and bet his friend that he'd have Dubliners saying it within 48 hours. He hired people to scribble it on walls, doors and windows, and the rest is history. (Source)
True or not, this legend is possible because human beings are easily mislead, especially when we hear something repeated often.
Joseph Goebbels, the evil head of Nazi propaganda admitted that he could make people believe a complete lie by repeating it often. (source)
And a number of studies show “that humans are remarkably resistant to changing their minds – even when faced with contradictory evidence.” (source)
There are many lies scribbled on the walls of our culture. But even more serious are the half-truths scribbled on modern church walls.
In Galatians 1:6-9, Paul is astonished that some of the Christians are being thrown into confusion by people “trying to pervert the Gospel of Christ.”
The same thing happens today, so let's “see to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ” (Colossians 2:8).
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