It's a twisted use of the word, and used as a "diversionary slang", that indicates that, "truth is not something" those who convolute the word, use it as a "trigger" to provide drama incitements to promote anguish within the under-educated and mis-educated mass of Right Wingers, who still lust for white nationalism and obsessed to want to hide the long history of
their created tragedies and their acts of inhumanity toward other human beings, whether they are black, brown, poor whites, and others.
These passages have told of such types, long before present day life.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.