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You know, as a point of interest, in the Muslim religion lying is justified as long as it's for a higher purpose. Or so I've read.
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Because you are deceiving someone.
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If it is wrong then why is Dr.Laura still doing it all the time? I guess she has been lying for so long that she now believes it to be the truth.
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You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. (Ex 20:16; cf. Deut 5:20) This commandment forbids misrepresenting the truth in our relations with other people. This commandment flows from our vocation to bear witness to our God who is the truth and wills the truth. Offenses against the truth are fundamental infidelities to God. They express a refusal to commit oneself to moral uprightness. For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.nccbuscc.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt2art8.htm With love in Christ.
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Society depends upon trust. If you cannot trust the people around you, you cannot work with them. And the whole way human society works, the thing that really makes us different from the animals, is that we can work together. If you lie, you are breaking that trust, which damages the fabric of society, which hurts everybody - including you yourself.
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Hiding the facts is considered lying. When some one asks you for a fact and you on purposely give them a false answer, its lying.....How could I trust what you say if you always lie to me?..;)
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Lying undermines the social bonds and the trust upon which humans rely upon for their survival. We are an essentially social, dependent species and therefore we must, as a rule, be honest and truthful with one another.
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Lying isn't always morally wrong. For example, if some men burst into my house and wanted to rape my wife demanding me to tell them where she was. I would lie and tell them I didn't know. No morals being broken there.
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