Comment by ehaliewicz2
5 years ago
I never got that connotation from the word 'deceive', I thought it just meant misleading someone, not necessarily for your own gain. Furthermore, I grew up christian and was never told all lying was for personal gain.
To me there is a difference between mislead and deceive. Deceive has a stronger negative intention behind it. Consider someone saying "I was misled" versus "I was deceived".
I made no connotations between what I wrote and Christianity / all lying is for personal gain, so we can skip that part of the discussion.