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By David Paulsen
Posted Feb 18, 2021
People push a car free after it spun out in the snow Feb. 15 in Waco, Texas. A winter storm brought snow, ice and plunging temperatures across the southern Plains and caused a power emergency in Texas. Photo: Associated Press
[Episcopal News Service] A combination of low temperatures and rare snowstorms have created a winter weather emergency across the South, with Texas facing some of the region’s direst conditions, from widespread power outages to a deadly traffic pile-up.
The cold-weather crisis also has disrupted parish life for many Episcopal congregations as church leaders and members respond to the sudden needs of people in their community who are suffering through the unforeseen disaster.
“Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness”.
This commandment may be the most frequently broken by people who claim to be committed Christians. To call someone “pedophile” because they say you should wear a mask or because an unidentified internet board tells you to…IS bearing false witness. So is making demonstrably false claims.
“This election was NOT stolen”, writes Hunn. “To give those opinions a microphone is to bear false witness. To stay silent in the face of a lie is to bear false witness”.
I’m thinking of converting to Episcopalian.
Do you know why lying, especially about a person, was considered such an egregious act in olden times? Why did people in year past care SO MUCH what people said about them? Until very, very recently and in MOST cultures of the world, bearing false witness was considered not just AS BAD AS physically assaulting them. It was considered worse. In times past, a man’s character and reputation was the single most important thing in li