‘A Cross Underneath One’s Clothing Is Okay’: An Interview with the Bishop of Arabia
Mike T:
I don’t know from where you get that notion of a “reasonable lie”. Lying is a violation of the natural law, and against divine precept, at least as orthodox Christians understand it.
The fact that Rahab (in the Old Testament) lied does not make lying a good. Sheesh! So many fundamentalist Christians are so philosophically brain dead, they actually would condone sodomy and child-rape, if only they could be convinced the Bible condoned it!
P-Nut:
We understand you loud and clear. What I and others are insisting is that the Bishop could have kept his damn trap shut and not even brought up the subject of conversions. Prudent silence! But by lying he goes OUT OF HIS WAY to commit a sin. And in any event, I don’t believe he is lying, which is sinful still (by Christian standards).
Sometimes it is permissible to deceive by prudent silence, or to not give away certain facts when not prompted to, but it can never be right for good men to lie in order to achieve some nebulous “greater good”. That’s consequentialism at its worst, and not a far cry to the lying (taqiyya) Muslim jihadists engage in.
