This of course is nothing more than the Apostle Paul "quote mining" in order to prove his own bias and to 'glorify' Jehovah's name and to push his own brand of religion. Exactly what the Watchtower Society does today when it cherry picks 'quotes' of scientists and scholars that seem to support the Societies own viewpoint. This quote is taken from a poem by Epimenides (See Wikipedia for a fuller biography) who wrote in defense of his god Zeus:
"They fashioned a tomb for thee, O holy and high one
The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies!
But thou art not dead: thou livest and abidest forever,
For in thee we live and move and have our being."
The Apostle Paul was quoting from a religious poem that glorified Zeus and was putting down the Cretans for not believing in him. Probably not a very good source of evidence for the 'Christian' Apostle Paul to use in describing the character and state of honesty of every person in Crete.
I was a Bethelite in the United States in the 1970's and here is the standard request made to incoming Bethelites in those days. In 1976 I left and eventually bought into a small business where I was working. If I had fallen for this foolishness I would be 60 years old and broke! In early 1976 I was taking an older gentleman and his wife on tour at Watchtower Farms. He came right out and told me that he was a Bethelite in the 1940's and not to put too much stock in what the leaders preach. He said that in the 40's they were telling the Bethel family over and over that Armageddon was imminent. 'You will never have much of a life if you listen to everything that they say.', was his advice. I wish I could thank him for that fatherly wisdom, but I never found out his name or where he was from and he has probably long ago passed away.
Hey, 'Brother Herd'........................Uncle Remus has some advice for you and the gang on the Governing Body(tm): "You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far." Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah!!!!!