Procrustes Stretched
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your PO is on line 1.you're kidding right?
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your PO is on line 1.you're kidding right?
your Po Is On Line 1.
LOL, there yah go, have him swear on his bits. If he lies we chop em off.
Or will that upset the atheists, pagans, wiccans, agnostics, liberals, catholics and/or Oprahians?
Were the Bibles the ealier Presidents were sworn in on King James or Jeffersonian?
If any elected politician put his hand on a Bible, would that upset the atheists, pagans, wiccans, agnostics, liberals, catholics and/or Oprahians?
Should Obama be sworn in on the Koran or would that upset Christians. Actually, I think that Christians were troubled when Keith Ellison was sworn into Congress and took a ceremonial oath with a Koran.
That is just too bad. Elected officials should be allowed to be sworn into office via any religious book (or no religious book) as the elected person so chooses.
I agree, but there is a growing group of militants that want to remove anything Christian from government. I wouldn't doubt it if the ACLU files a lawsuit in the not-to-distant future to remove any religious book from a swearing-in ceremony.
I agree, but there is a growing group of militants that want to remove anything Christian from government. I wouldn't doubt it if the ACLU files a lawsuit in the not-to-distant future to remove any religious book from a swearing-in ceremony.
Honestly, if a person cannot be taken for their word without having to swear on a false idol then they are not worth the trust anyway. I don't swear on anything, when I make a promise that's it, I do it. People use the idols they swear on so they can justify breaking their word later to themselves, but they are still not honest. No, I would have absolute respect if he just stood up and said, "I promise to do the best that I can" without the need for an idol of any sort. "Let your word be true."
Wow -a couple of odds "claims" in your post. For instance -you apparently "know" it would be swearing on a false idol when you actually know no such thing. Yet you write it as if it is a proven fact -lol. It is merely your opinion -one billions in the world do not share at all and would insist that statement is just a bullshit opinion.
The sentence about "people use the idols they swear on so they can justify breaking their word" is just bizarre on any level and makes no sense. Amazing you actually think people deliberately swear on what you believe is a "false idol" for the specific purpose of later justifying breaking the word. LOL At best it is a comment on the kind of people you personally associate with but nothing else.
A legal oath involves "swearing". And for people of normal IQ and above, it makes complete sense for the person being sworn in to swear his oath on something that person holds in the highest esteem and considers to be of such value to him -as an indication that person takes that oath as a deep and abiding obligation of the highest order since violating that oath would also violate what that individual believes to be of the highest value. As opposed to merely using a very sincere voice to "promise" to do something -while crossing one's fingers behind their back, literally or figuratively.
Whether you personally ALSO hold it in the highest esteem and consider it to be of the greatest value is totally irrelevant to the entire thing and of absolutely no concern to the person being sworn in -or anyone else.
Why? That would ultimately be pointless. Really pointless. I think our courts offer alternatives for people of other religions (swearing on other holy books or swearing under threat of perjury).
Do you remember when Marlin Brando would not swear upon the Bible?
And yet you seem to assume that all people who follow your idols believe JUST like you. How sweetly hypocritical of you that you think 1/8 th the worlds population think exactly like you, and yet I am wrong for repeating and opinion that almost everyone already knows thinking that somehow I would have changed my mind.
No actually I've never heard that before.