When the researchers painted the wasps to give them the markings of higher or lower dominance, they found that both kinds of
liars were harassed more than unpainted wasps, indicating that the wasps frown on lying per se.
To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and
harass women and girls and call them
liars when they dare to speak up,
is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.