It is written in the book of Dawkins 2:28 - 34 «Then shall the
bearers of false witness claiming supernatural phenomenon and worshipers of deitys fall upon the righteous with their knives and swords, tearing my people apart who did nothing but point out that their God's did not exist.
The actions of a rogue banker who forged the initials of customers set off a chain of events that uncovered an entrenched
practice of false witnessing.
IWhile people in a free society have the right to believe whatever they want to believe, they should be required to obey the ninth commandment, which forbids the bearing
of false witness against their neighbors.
It is already clear that that plot will involve the purchase and
planting of false witnesses and the old charge that God and king, religion and democratic order, have been cursed.
Sixtus V recommended moderation soon after the tribunal was set up, Leo X encouraged the
prosecution of false witnesses and Paul III urged the Neapolitans to resist the introduction of the Inquisition by their Spanish masters (1546).
If testimony has a relation to a trial, the place of the trial of Jesus would suffice to recall it (cf. the accusation of the false testimony as well as the stirring
up of false witnesses to the trial); but the whole ministry of Jesus is a trial.
To the two lay officers responsible for asking him to abjure before the fire was lit, Jan Hus replied: «God is my witness that I have never taught nor preached what is attributed to me by the
depositors of false witnesses.
At Lehmann Maupin's Lower East Side gallery, Walker is showing videos, notably the seventeen - minute puppet and shadow play Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale, centering on a terrifying
indictment of false witness and sexual - racial hatred.
The only way to avoid the insidious and regular
bearing of false witness is to escape the ignorance of being unaware of reality, the ignorance of being insensitive to the vastness of God's truth.
On this level, all of us human beings are the victims
of false witness as well as the bearers of false witness.