Should we learn to deal honestly with one another we would see a transformation not only in the Church but in the society as well. We would find it less acceptable to permit lies to damage people lives. Americans lie on their income tax returns to the tune of millions of dollars a year. Doctors fake reports in order to profit from Medicare patients. Prize athletes at great universities are kept eligible for competition through bogus credits and forged transcripts of academic records.
Children soon acquire the cynical assumption that lying is the normal tack for TV advertisers.
To return our culture to an honest one we must begin with the individual. Wholeness in relationships are a must for a culture to survive, and for a soul to develop into the character of God that we are suppose to maintain. The 9th commandment calls us to honor God by honoring the truth in ways that build up and not tear down. Even when such truth is required to deal with wrongdoing between people. Certainly our lives would experience God's fullness when we live the truth rather than the lies so pervasive in our society today.