Luther

In the beginning, Luther was sensitive to Jewish resistance to the Catholic Church. He wrote: “The Jews are blood-relations of our Lord […] I beg, therefore, my dear Papist, if you become tired of abusing me as a heretic, that you begin to revile me as a Jew.”

But, later on, Luther expected Jews to convert to his form of Christianity. When they did not, he turned violently against them. 

The Jews are a “base, whoring people, that is, no people of God and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth. […]

They have failed to learn any lesson from the terrible distress that has been theirs for over fourteen hundred years in exile. […]

First, to set fire to their synagogues or schools … This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom so that God might see that we are Christians. […]

Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed.”

Forged | Bart Ehrman | Talks at Google

“You, yourself, can imagine situations where a lie is an appropriate thing to do. In the ancient world, people like Plato said if a doctor has to lie to his patient in order to get her to take his medicine, to take her medicine, that’s a good thing.

That’s a good lie.

Or, if a general is in battle and his troops are getting beaten and he needs to rally them, it’s OK to lie to them to say that reinforcements are coming so that they’ll fight more valiantly.

That’s a good lie.

There are places where it’s appropriate and good to lie.

It may be that there were ancient authors who thought that their views of this Christian religion were so spot on and so important and really needed to be widely accepted, that it was so important to get this message out that they were willing to claim to be someone that they weren’t.

They were willing to write a book and claim to be Peter or Paul or John or Matthew or Judas or Mary and so forth.

It’s possible that they thought that this lie was justified because of the importance of their message.

If so, then we have this very interesting irony that some early […] authors thought that in order to convey the truth, it was appropriate to tell a lie.“

When caught lying, people often defend themselves by saying they lied to protect other people. But a true lier meets the requirement of the three in the morning.

What is three in the morning?
It is about a monkey trainer who went to his monkeys and told them: “Regarding your chestnuts, you are going to have three measures in the morning, and four in the afternoon.” On hearing this all the monkeys became angry.
So the keeper said: “All right then, I will change it to four measures in the morning, and three in the afternoon.”
The animals were satisfied with this order.
The two arrangements were the same – the number of chestnuts did not change, but in one case the monkeys were displeased, and in the other case they were satisfied.
The keeper was willing to change his personal arrangement in order to meet objective conditions. (*)

(*) Shree Bhagwan Rajneesh – The Empty Boat