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To: Lane3 who wrote (73538)	8/27/2003 5:51:13 PM
From: The Philosopher	of 82486

I didn't hear him saying that. What I heard him saying was that if you truly believe in an afterlife and purgatory and the fires of Hell, then if you swear to tell the truth on the Bible so help you God, the price of lying is not merely abuse of your personal ethic, but the risk of literally burning in Hell for all eternity. When you measure that against the perceived risk of lying which a non-believer faces, which is limited to the abuse of a personal ethic, there is an argument to me made that the perceived cost of lying to a believer is greater, since they suffer both the abuse of personal ethic plus an eternal consequence. Doesn't say that a nonbeliever is necessarily less honest than a believer. Just that once one takes the oath, the stake for the believer jumps up a whole lot further than the stake for the nonbeliever.

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