https://mgpiety.org/2026/10/08/on-lying-under-oath/M.G. Pietyen2026-10-08T12:26:55+00:00On Lying Under OathDeism, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, "war of all against all", Swearing oaths,, Problems with law, Corrupt attorneys, U.S. legal system doesn't work,, Instinct for self-preservation,, Erosion of social bonds, Moral obligation as inherently reciprocal, Legal scholarship, Protestant Reformation, Effect on Law of the Protestant Reformation, Selling of "indulgences", Secular humanism, Rates of depression among attorneys, atheism, theism