The Ninth Commandment

I just watched a Dennis Prager viedo on Facebook on the 9th commandment: "Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor." Dennis notes that God gave this commandment to the Hebrew people for 2 reasons. First, they are not to lie in court. For without truth in court, there can be no justice, and without justice, there can be no civilization.

Second, the bulk of Prager's 5 minute Prager U video is about God prohibiting our lying in general. Dennis urges people to be good and compassionate, but micro-living is okay with that, though, truth-telling is important there too. Where lying, Dennis reminds us, is most damaging is on the macro-level, out there in society, where the whole society of decent, locally/mostly truthful people live and believe national lies that allow slavery against "inferior" blacks, authorize Hitlerian genocide against subhuman Jews, or sanction world-wide invasion and war to spread totalitarian, Communist conquest upon on people, everywhere.

These macro lies refer to what is evil as good, and to what is good as evil.

Even good causes served by liars corrupt the good cause with a bad means.

I would like to add a third reason why God does not want us to lie. Because, all are instinctive collectivists and herd-creatures all are innate liars and self-deceivers, justifying by lying to make attractive their enslaving, wretched group-living, selfless nonindividuated lives of quiet desperation, all lying to themselves and to each other, allows the dominance of Lera on earth to continue. No generation of the children of darkness can continue without rife, en masse lying.

This is now great souls, truth-tellers and truth-livers, individuating and individual-living, are denied social participation and societal support. This is how they are socially and legally discriminated against. Because they are God's most active and authentic souls on earth in their generation, they are a threat to ending the reign of Satan, and lying by the majority allows all of this to be kept unacknowledged, unatoned for and allowed to continue in practice.