Christian motives to lie.

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Slow Christian news day?

"....I knew a couple of Christians once, who...." blah, blah, BLAH!

It's a pretty effective way for believers to bolster one another's faith, I think. I can recall numerous of the dozens of stories that JWs would tell one another, which amount to little more than urban legends. They were always at least third-person accounts of how a pair of JWs could preach in dangerous neighborhoods (because unbeknownst to them, they were being accompanied by a large angel that everyone else could see) or how a JW who partook of the bread and wine the first time seemed to glow with a heavenly light, and so on. There were literally dozens of them, if not hundreds.

And then there were the "personal" experiences which were often wide open to interpretation even though it was safe to assume that the person telling it was embellishing it to some degree. Hear these kinds of stories day in and day out, and you marvel at just how involved god is with his followers and with the world in general. It convinces you that anyone who doesn't experience god must just not be looking for him, or deliberately deceiving himself and dismissing clear evidence of his involvement with humanity.