The 8 in 8 Hoax

Adrian Wong · Apr 2, 2012

I usually don't want to deal with religious-based hoaxes. After all, I'm not religious, and I'm pretty sure the religious folks wouldn't fall for them, since well, they should know their religion pretty well. However, I keep getting this very e-mail from numerous concerned Christians. Presumably, they were worried that I might get whacked by God???

Anyway, I thought I should debunk this famous one that has been making rounds for several years now. It's just called "8 in 8", whatever that means... Check it out :

DID YOU KNOW THESE FACTS?

I SURE DIDN'T TILL NOW

Death is certain but the Bible speaks about untimely death!

Make a personal reflection about this......

Very interesting, read until the end......

It is written in the Bible (Galatians 6:7):

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sow, that shall he also reap..."

Here are some men and women who mocked God :

John Lennon (Singer):

Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said : 'Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about that... I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him' (1966).

Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.

Tancredo Neves (President of Brazil ):

During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from
Presidency.

Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President, then he died.

Cazuza (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet):

During a show in Canecio ( Rio de Janeiro ), while smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said: 'God, that's for you.'

He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner.

The man who built the Titanic

After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be.

With an ironic tone he said: 'Not even God can sink it'

The result: I think you all know what happened to the Titanic

Marilyn Monroe (Actress)

She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show.

He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her.

After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said: 'I don't need your Jesus'.

A week later, she was found dead in her apartment

Bon Scott (Singer)

The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang:

'Don't stop me;
I'm going down all the way,
down the highway to hell'.

On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.

Campinas (IN 2005)

In Campinas , Brazil , a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend......

The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter holding her hand, who was already seated in the car: 'My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You.'

She responded: 'Only If He (God) travels In the trunk,
cause inside here..... It's already full.'

Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died, the car could
not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact.

The police said there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken

Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist and entertainer)
said the Bible (Word of God) was the worst book ever written.

In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond recognition in her motor vehicle.

Many more important people have forgotten that there is no other name that was given so much authority as the name of Jesus.

Many have died, but only Jesus died and rose again, and he is still alive.

'Jesus'

PS: If it was a joke, you would have sent it to everyone. So are you going to have courage to send this?.

I have done my part, Jesus said, 'If you are embarrassed about me, I will also be embarrassed about you before my father.'

You are my 8 in 8 seconds. I am not breaking this. No way!

I'M TOLD THIS WORKS!!!!!
Bishop T.D. Jakes '8 Second Prayer.'
Just repeat this prayer and see how God moves!!

'Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus' name. Amen.'

Pass this message to 8 people
{EXCEPT YOU AND ME}....
You will receive a miracle tomorrow.
I Hope that you don't ignore and let God bless you.
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Now, let the debunking begin!

1. The John Lennon quote was inaccurate. He actually said, “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.” He was shot dead by a born-again Christian FOURTEEN YEARS after that. So much for “turn the other cheek”, eh? I wonder what Jesus would have thought of that. He also shot Lennon 5 times, of which only 4 hit.

2. I did a search of Tancredo Neves and never found a single quote about the 500,000 votes being mentioned, except in articles mentioning this chain letter. Unless the writer of this chain letter can prove otherwise, common sense dictates that it is nothing more than an unsubstantiated lie. Particularly since in the Electoral Election for the post of President, “Neves was elected President by a majority of the Electoral College on January 15, 1985, where he received 480 votes.” 480 votes, ladies and gentlemen, not 500,000 votes.

3. Cazuza, the bisexual singer, died from an AIDS-related illness, not lung cancer. There was also no evidence he ever did that; or if he did it, that he did it to mock God.

4. Never mind that the writer cannot even tell you who was “The man who built Titanic”. No one actually said that infamous line, “Not even God can sink it”. The “unsinkability” of the Titanic was not a quote or a myth but rather, the “considered opinion of experts at that time”. See snopes.com: The Unsinkable Titanic

5. According to a spokesperson for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, “there was no discussion between Marilyn Monroe and Billy Graham”. Therefore, we can safely say that this claim is utter nonsense.

6. Not only Bon Scott of AC/DC sang, “Highway To Hell”. Millions of their fans sang the same song, many probably still do today. Yet, not everyone has choked to death on their own vomit. FYI, vomiting and choking on the vomit as a result of being drunk is actually pretty common.

7. The Campinas car accident cannot be corroborated in any way. All Google searchers of this subject point back to this chain letter. Again, common sense dictates that this will very likely be nothing more than yet another unsubstantiated lie, especially when the story claims there is actually a crate of eggs in the trunk of a car driven by drunk teens.

8. Christine Hewitt was truly found burnt beyond recognition in her Toyota Hiace minivan, but that was only done to cover up the act of murder. She was actually shot dead and her body placed in her minivan which was then driven to a lonely rural road before being set on fire. Her husband, David Lloyd Gordon, and his brother, Wordsworth Gordon, were ultimately charged with her murder. Obviously, they are not the hands of God, unless God condones murder?
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My conclusion? This is nothing more than another useless, misleading chain letter, designed to trick gullible Christians into forwarding it ad infinitum. Like a virus, it can be stopped by preventing it from spreading further. So let's start now. Please stop forwarding this e-mail!

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