Lies travel faster than bullets. Like viruses, they are alive.
When we hear a lie and we renounce it, the lie passes harmlessly through us. If we act on the lie, it hits our soul like a bullet. We are stopped, or deflected from, the straight and narrow path that leads from each of us to God.
Newton tells us that “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”. That applies to lies, as well. When we accept a lie, the impact, like a bullet, shoves our soul farther from God. When we tell a lie, we fire a bullet that hurts anyone who believes it.
Lies, bullets, and recoil are related. When we tell a lie, the recoil shoves our soul farther from God even as the lie may drive someone else off track.
Catholic Fundamentalists think of lies, bullets, and recoil as “Newtonian Theology”, the only time in history that anything Newton believed supported the religion he and his employers despised. (They were in a denomination founded by an ax-murderer.)
To tell or believe a lie puts us farther from God.
All lies are told for one reason: every lie encourages people to violate God’s Commandments. That is why plaques commemorating the Ten Commandments are ordered to be removed from government buildings, especially courthouses and schools.
Government supporters do not want taxpayers to be reminded that God does not want people to bear false witness or steal. Warnings that remind of God and His punishments for putting self interest before His Commandments get in the way of cash flows.
As government service is replaced with government oppression, bigger lies are told more frequently. As such governments increase in power, the lies grow bigger. They are more easily identified, but harder to avoid.
Still, we must avoid all that is not truth.
