![]() ![]() As good citizens of the secular society, we are expected to accept a claim that contradicts the evidence before us, and embrace that claim as true. Then, barely pausing for breath, the same leaders have ordered us to recognize girls as boys, and boys as girls, on demand. Yet in America today, our political leaders-led by judges, sworn to uphold the law-told us that a man can marry a man, and a woman can marry a woman, even though such unions cannot possibly qualify for recognition as what people from time immemorial have recognized as marriage. But it is rare that society’s leaders proclaim a falsehood, and then ask-or demand-that ordinary people do the same. There always have been, and always will be, liars. To swear that something is a fact, knowing that it is not, is the quintessential violation of this commandment. Sadly, we notice those offenses frequently public figures seem especially likely to commit them.īut more specifically, the Eighth Commandment forbids testifying to a falsehood. We are warned against all forms of dishonesty: from “spin control” to outright deceit, from the “little white lie” to the Big Lie. ![]() ![]() We typically think of this commandment as an injunction against lying-which it certainly is. But of all the commandments, I suggest, the one most conspicuously disregarded in our society today is: “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” Theft and adultery and covetousness are all too common, while only a minority of those who call themselves Christians bother to honor the Lord’s Day. But in the 20th century the commandment, “Thou shalt not kill,” was violated on a scale the world had never before seen. There have been murders, for instance, since Cain slew Abel. Rather, I mean one persistent problem that points toward a weakness of the entire culture. All Ten Commandments are at risk every day, in every time and place where fallen human beings are gathered. By a “defining” sin I don’t mean to suggest that a particular society is prone to only one type of moral failing. ![]()
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