‘If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness’
– 1 John Ch1 v 9
LYING is, however, part of the human condition. According to psychologists, there is a continuum of lying which ranges from the mild but untrue statement, to downright untruthfulness. Human beings lie to others and even lie to themselves.
I was both amused and intrigued by the TV debates preceding the 2016 EU referendum. With political leaders accusing each other of ‘telling whoppers’, many bemused voters concluded that both sides of the referendum debate were more than a little ‘economical with the truth’.