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anon65111186
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I am opening this question up to see what other people think.
A little background before the question:
Recently, my sister said some things about my parents I thought were untrue. She called them liars which I thought was unfounded. She is older than me, about 50 and has fallen away into a non-denominational Christian sect from being raised in Catholicism. I am Catholic and so are my parents. She has said many untrue things about the faith and so I had reason to question the veracity of what she said. She is also not close at all with my parents, and I know my parents well.
Anyhow, after some time she told her husband about my parents and then he sent me a text message saying whatever I heard was biased and only my sister told the truth. I let him know she doesn’t always tell the truth because I was upset at that time, in a somewhat uncharitable way.
After this she e-mails me saying the only way to clear her name is to have a lie detector test done. She talked with some lie detector company and they told her this is the only way. She said she would come visit and pay for everything. When my parents and even my wife found out about this, they thought she was sick and needed help, and just laughed really at how ridiculous it was. I thought the same but could understand she thought she could prove herself right that way. I looked it up and lie detectors aren’t even used in court or in the scientific community, basically they are unreliable.
Anyhow, I told her that doing such a test would not help reconcile with my parents, if that is what she wanted, and asked her if she loved me and my parents, which she turned back to me, and I said we love her, but she seems unhappy, even though she has lots of money and a good husband (whom she seems to have turned against my parents). I said I would pray for her, and I have. I also apologized if I ever did anything wrong against her and asked for her forgiveness, because I basically called her a liar to her husband.
The question is, what would you do in such a circumstance, and have you ever heard of someone trying to clear their name in such a way before? Or is this just way out there?
Thank you!
A little background before the question:
Recently, my sister said some things about my parents I thought were untrue. She called them liars which I thought was unfounded. She is older than me, about 50 and has fallen away into a non-denominational Christian sect from being raised in Catholicism. I am Catholic and so are my parents. She has said many untrue things about the faith and so I had reason to question the veracity of what she said. She is also not close at all with my parents, and I know my parents well.
Anyhow, after some time she told her husband about my parents and then he sent me a text message saying whatever I heard was biased and only my sister told the truth. I let him know she doesn’t always tell the truth because I was upset at that time, in a somewhat uncharitable way.
After this she e-mails me saying the only way to clear her name is to have a lie detector test done. She talked with some lie detector company and they told her this is the only way. She said she would come visit and pay for everything. When my parents and even my wife found out about this, they thought she was sick and needed help, and just laughed really at how ridiculous it was. I thought the same but could understand she thought she could prove herself right that way. I looked it up and lie detectors aren’t even used in court or in the scientific community, basically they are unreliable.
Anyhow, I told her that doing such a test would not help reconcile with my parents, if that is what she wanted, and asked her if she loved me and my parents, which she turned back to me, and I said we love her, but she seems unhappy, even though she has lots of money and a good husband (whom she seems to have turned against my parents). I said I would pray for her, and I have. I also apologized if I ever did anything wrong against her and asked for her forgiveness, because I basically called her a liar to her husband.
The question is, what would you do in such a circumstance, and have you ever heard of someone trying to clear their name in such a way before? Or is this just way out there?
Thank you!
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Thank you!