Quote:IF you accept the concept of a 'just war', (I do not) Sun Tzu's precept that war is about deception is perfectly moral. To argue that it is OK to deceive/lie under some circumstances is to argue moral relativism,or that God is above his own moral laws.
That's not necessarily true. Perhaps God has a kind of authority that does not require divulging certain kinds of truths--just as there are state secrets which the government is not required to divulge. Or perhaps God has a particular relationship to humans that justifies withholding the truth--just as a parent is not required to divulge, say, details of their sex lives to their children. If you're going to argue that God had an obligation to divulge the truth, you're going to need to show it.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
