When folks say the Bible prohibits lying, they are mistaken.
In the translations of the "Bible" I've read, the sin is not in "lying," generally.
It is the specific misfeasance of "bearing false witness against thy nerighbor."
Everybody speaks untruths, sometime to cover our asses in various ways.
It is different to lie by denying than to lie by naming an innocent as the culprit.
False witness intentionally damages someone else.
We're learning how society which tolerates "false witness" soon has no other kind.
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