I like to think that every faithful Christian takes the Ten Commandments seriously, and applies them throughout his life. There’s no nudge-nudge/wink-wink when it comes to politics. You can’t commit idolatry or adultery as a means to winning, even in order to attain some worthy end. The Commandment forbidding “false witness” is quite specific.
Some Christian thinkers such as Augustine and Aquinas believed that it forbids every kind of verbal falsehood, right down to “little white lies” and lying to Nazis at the door looking for Jews you hid in your house. I disagree with that reading, and have written at length on the question of whether it’s fitting to wield falsehoods to those with no right to the truth, such as Nazi stormtroopers or abortionists. Go read that if you’re interested.
But I think every serious Christian can agree on the narrowest, most literal reading of the Commandment: Bearing false […]
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