Don’t you remember when Henry V concealed his identity as he went among his troops, in order to get the opinions that no one would offer a king to his face? There is no indication that Shakespeare thought this was inappropriate behavior.
Actually the Catholic Church disagrees with you on this as I showed when I posted paragraph of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. But in case you missed it, here it is again.
It needs to be looked at on a case by case basis but in the case put forward by the OP it would not be a mortal sin and in my mind not that wrong at all.
Suffice it to say that you won’t be pursuing a career in undercover police work. Fair enough. Your reasons could not be better.
Unless some thief asked him where it was hidden!Every last penny would still be there, I’d be certain of it.
I don’t wanna be no pig anyway.Suffice it to say that you won’t be pursuing a career in undercover police work. Fair enough. Your reasons could not be better.
I don’t think there’s much to gain from giving you any more arguments, at any rate. Your position has been made crystal clear and in no uncertain terms!
I wouldn’t go to you to hide me from the Nazis, but if I had money no one knew about that I wanted to stash in order to take care of my family when the war was over, I know who I’d go to!
Every last penny would still be there, I’d be certain of it.
Perhaps you misunderstood what it was I was saying. Certainly you shouldn’t “resent” what I had to say on the subject, and if you did I apologize. However, I am not a priest, nor a theologian, nor a philosopher. I am a sheriff’s deputy. My entire life I have been taught that lying is a sin; however, I believe that while this is true, that there are circumstances concerning “the lie” that either raise the seriousness of it (mortal sin) or lower it (venial sin). It is my opinion, that law enforcement officers who deceive “perps” in an attempt to circumvent criminal activity are NOT committing a mortal sin. They are, in fact, helping to prevent further sins (mortal) from be committed. So, if you disagree with this and choose to resent what I have said then so be it. The point of my post was that lying in these circumstances is, in my opinion, at best a venial sin.
I don’t believe that neo canaan actually has a beef with the act of lying. He obviously just dislikes law enforcement. Perhaps at some point in his life he was lied to by an officer?
Is Neo for real? Read his posts, then decide. :nope:
I was trying to defend what you do in your job, even when you use deception in pursuit of the truth. I don’t believe it is even a venial sin in any regard so long as the intent is to gain the truth and gather evidence to convict the guilty.
I seem to have just found out about this. But apparently it’s been around since 2002.
Pig? Let’s not call names, especially those in legitimate authority, dear Neo.
But the real world is a sinful, secular, fat cat devil world. which is why Jesus is not of that world. And besides, the fuzz uses the devil’s talk known as cursing, using the 14 words we must NEVER say.
William Pitt, speech, Nov. 18, 1783
Ecclesiates 3:16:
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say Neo might have a criminal history.
Just kidding dude. But I would say that you probably have had negative contact with law enforcement (pigs, fuzz, 5.0, rollaz, bulls, etc).