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This is a normal post Hmmm.
The White House says that the second swearing was unnecessary, but that it'll keep the initial swearing out of the conspiracy theorists' grubby little hands as a bonus.

Fair enough.

However, the second swearing was done without a Bible... which means that, even if the Dekions don't have anything, the fundies now will.

Oy veh!
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:37, Reply)
This is a normal post Why does it have to be a Bible at all?
Surely it would make more sense to use a copy of the constitution
 (I helped save b3ta! The Coast Of Yemen, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:39, Reply)
This is a normal post Last year
I had to swear on a bible. I was asked whether I minded; I said no, but it might as well be the koran or the collected works of Pam Ayres.
 (I helped save b3ta! DogHorse plop, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:49, Reply)
This is a normal post I swore on a bible once.
Wrote "cuntsplot" on the first page of Exodus.
 (Jimbotfu Bummed in the gob again, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 10:18, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm now inexplicably tempted
to sneak into the nearest church and add "movement of Jah people" on that page of all their bibbles.
 (I helped save b3ta! DogHorse plop, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 10:40, Reply)
This is a normal post
Constitution The Adventures Of Moominpapa
 (I helped save b3ta! Monty Propps, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 10:21, Reply)
This is a normal post I have no idea.
I was thinking about this on the way in to work this morning: if I had to swear an oath, what would I use, given my atheism? To use any kind of scripture would be odd, since to swear to tell the truth on that'd be to give a false impression: I'd perjure myself in the process of promising not to. I love Moby Dick, but I don't think that it adds anything to my testimony.

I could go literal, and hold my balls: "testimony" shares an origin with "testes", in the sense of "Cut these off if I'm lying".

But I came to the conclusion that the fact that I say I'm telling the truth ought to be enough: lying is simply below me. If you don't believe me, then that's your problem.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 10:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Enzyme
You'd be asked in court to make an affirmation, rather than swearing on a relevant holy book.
 (I helped save b3ta! Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 11:23, Reply)
This is a normal post Awwww
Somebody still holds hope that America will remember the whole 'separation of church and state' thing!
 (I helped save b3ta! Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 11:06, Reply)