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According to your belief system, under what circumstances does making stuff up not count as lying?

If there are no circumstances, please say so, but I know there are some people around here for whom that's not true, and I'm just curious as to what their criteria are for considering outright fabrication or willful misinformation justifiable.

Update:

I'm not talking about the Bible at all. If that's made up, it was someone else who made it up. I'm talking about people who make things up themselves.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    When it's done honestly.

    I don't think fiction authors are liars.

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  • Just like repeating a rumor, you are just following a lie. Unless the rumor happens to be true but that really never tends to happen...

    Wow... the bible is a rumor!!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    When what you make up is being used as a metaphor or if it is an obvious exaggeration such as "We must be going a million miles an hour!"

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  • 1 decade ago

    Are you talking about the 4 gospels, or the entire bible?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Kind of like when you hear that "god is love"?

    Strange how such a loving god takes no issue with killing millions of innocent men, women, children, and babies...

  • 1 decade ago

    It doesn't. A lie is a lie, know matter how great or small.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the question: "Am I fat?" should not under no circumstances be answered with "yes"

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    In the name of god, anything goes!

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