lied to, but things have changed. Deliberate lying has become an acceptable practice.

Supposedly, honorable people shamelessly defend it. Lying is an intentional

misrepresentation of reality as distinguished from the innocent fantasy common to those

whose notion of truth and falsehood has yet to develop clearly. Many would argue that a

“little white lie,” never hurt anyone, but the truth is they do. “We have become

desensitized to the enormous significance of lying, the effects are all destructive,

generally lowering the level of trust in anything we read or hear,” says Karen Peterson in

In today’s climate of dishonest politics and corrupt religious leaders, much of

society grows-up with a contempt for talk of “honesty.” The same politicians, who

promote a return to traditional values, like honesty indicated for lying on their tax returns

or to a congressional investigation committee. These blatant forms of lying are

misleading campaign advertisements and partisan propaganda that are a common and

even integral part of politics the wor

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