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Originally Posted by foreverwar
So you have never lied to anyone close to you? Not a leading question, but I am a great believer in a few aphorisms -
Let he/she who is without sin, cast the first stone.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
I have noticed there is a tendency to equalise things - to say that a lot of good things done over a period of time can be negated by one small (in the overall scheme of thing, but I think infidelity is unforgivable) thing.
I think that speeding is bad, but I do not instantly then doubt all the good things the speeding offender has done (a local member of the clergy was done for speeding on the motorway - the congregation did not ask for his resignation).
I believe it was right that John Major was taken to task for deceiving his wife, but I do not then equate that with "he must have lied about everything else".
But, as the saying goes, to each their own.
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I am not an elected official, if I were I can guarantee you I would not lie, is it to much to ask for our politicians to tell the truth.
Did I say that he must have lied about everything, what I said was if he can deceive her he can deceive anyone and therefore everything he say's is clouded in doubt