Yes, that certainly is the case, and that sad circumstance is clearly evidenced in the current proceedings involving the President. Anyone who has a modicum degree of common sense is aware that the President has perjured himself repeatedly, in spite of political protestations to the contrary. The fact remains, though, when a believer lies under oath, he does so contrary to what he acknowledges as right, and in violation of his own conscience. On the other hand, when an atheist lies, he violates nothing more than a personal, arbitrary standard that he himself has imposed, and which, by his own admission, he may dispose of at any convenient moment. There are light-years of qualitative difference between these two philosophies.
Atheism is incredibly perverse.
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