Deadly deceit You can't just tell one lie. You have to back it up to make it sound believable. So you lie and lie and lie again. And once a lie is out there, everything that is said or done as a result of that lie rests on a false foundation. Even good deeds or acts of faith, if based on a lie, can collapse on people's heads.
Lies burrow deep into personal relationships.
Once you catch someone lying, doubts are cast on every encounter, every conversation. You can never be sure you are hearing the truth. Even when a person swears something's true, you find it hard to believe them. Lies can come between husbands and wives, parents and children, between a president and his country. During the Vietnam era, lies and misinformation from the White House poisoned the national debate and left years of deep-seated mistrust of the government.