Liar, Liar...

It is really too bad that people's pants don't catch on fire when they lie, or at least have their noses grow longer.  Interestingly, both of these ideas came about because society believed that lying was wrong and detrimental to the strength of our social fabric.  You can't have a good society that is beneficial to everyone when lying is okay.

When I was young, it was constantly stated that if you tell a lie, you will have to remember it and keep it up so that you do not get caught in it; it would be more work to keep the fabricated things straight than to just tell the truth.

Not anymore!  Lying today has become the norm.  People simply say what is convenient for the moment and if you point out that this contradicts what they have already stated, they act as if you are the one with the problem.

I am always reminded of the movie "Extreme Prejudice" from 1987 where Nick Nolte plays  Texas Ranger Jack Benteen and Rip Torn plays Sheriff Hank Pearson.  Speaking of the bad guy, Cash Baily, played by Powers Booth, Pearson says: 

"Funny, ain't it, how it comes around. Right way's the hardest, wrong way's the easiest. Rule of nature, like water seeks the path of least resistance. So you get crooked rivers, crooked men."

How right that is; even in 1987 they still understood this in Hollywood. Here we are 37 years later, and people no longer understand this. They no longer even try to distinguish between lies and truth. I see this happening every day. People lie because it is the easiest way to achieve something, and when they are caught in the lie, they just don't care. They just keep moving on expecting the lies to be believed regardless of the evidence.

It is like an episode of Live PD where they pull drugs out of some guy's front pants pocket, and he starts saying that it is not his drugs, doesn't know how it got there, someone is framing him, etc. He knows that no one believes him, but he will carry that story all the way to the judge...

I see this happening in people's personal lives, in business, in government, just about everywhere, and no one seems to care.

Revelation 21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.