Famous April Fools' jokes and the denial of truth: Praying on Maundy Thursday for the faith to have faith
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 1 April 2021
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This day is famous for April Fools' Day jokes. In The Daily Article for April 1, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison describes one of the most famous such jokes as well as a recent example in the news, then turns to the denial of truth in our culture, the urgency of religious truth, and the path to the faith and courage we need to stand for Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.7 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.4 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:18.5 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denisonformed, and this is the daily article for Thursday, |
| 0:22.6 | April 1st, 2021. The title is famous April Fool's Jokes and the denial of truth, |
| 0:28.6 | praying on Monday Thursday for the faith to have faith. Perhaps the most famous April Fool's Day |
| 0:34.2 | joke of all time is the BBC's so-called spaghetti harvest prank. |
| 0:39.2 | On April 1st in 1957, a news broadcaster told his audience that a Swiss region near the Italian |
| 0:45.5 | border had, quote, an exceptionally heavy spaghetti crop that year. |
| 0:50.4 | The camera cut to images of people picking spaghetti off trees and bushes, then sitting down to eat their so-called real homegrown spaghetti. |
| 0:59.3 | Some viewers got the joke, but others reportedly asked about ways they could grow their own spaghetti at home. |
| 1:06.1 | Perhaps Volkswagen will make future April Fool's Day lists. |
| 1:09.9 | The automaker announced Tuesday that it would |
| 1:12.0 | rebrand itself as Volkswagen to promote its electric car strategy. Now the company is telling us that |
| 1:18.9 | the move was a joke. Since the Wall Street Journal and other outlets are reporting the story, |
| 1:23.9 | the marketing ploy clearly worked. Here's the moral of the story. Don't believe everything |
| 1:29.1 | you see in the news. In our post-truth culture, every day is April Fool's Day. Case in point, |
| 1:36.3 | a CNN reporter wrote an article yesterday in which he stated, quote, it's not possible to know a person's |
| 1:42.8 | gender identity at birth and there is no consensus |
| 1:45.8 | criteria for assigning sex at birth. An evolutionary biologist responded, quote, |
| 1:52.7 | observing genitalia is the consensus criteria for determining one's sex at birth. It is inaccurate |
| 1:58.8 | only about 0.018% of the time. Writing for National |
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