July 3, 2013 – Catechism 2475 – 2487

Lies tear apart society.  I have already talked about how it seems you cannot trust the information that we get and that comes from the fact that the information “they” get is not trustworthy.  What does that do to the stability of society.

I also thought about the image of “there is no truth in him” in describing satan.  I don’t think we can even comprehend that because there is a part of God in us and will always be there because we are His creatures and so we will never get to the point where there is no truth in us.  So, imagine the most untrustworthy person and they are nothing compared with satan.

I also imagine lies as a snowball going down a hill and getting bigger and bigger as it goes.  It is just so amazing how easy it is for some to lie and you wonder if there is any part of them that is true or whether they remember anything that is true about themselves.  Soon you begin to believe your own lies.  That is where satan came from, deceiving himself that he was God.