Why does it have to be a Bible at all?
Surely it would make more sense to use a copy of the constitution
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The Coast Of Yemen, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:39,
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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.
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DogHorse plop, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:49,
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I swore on a bible once.
Wrote "cuntsplot" on the first page of Exodus.
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I'm now inexplicably tempted
to sneak into the nearest church and add "movement of Jah people" on that page of all their bibbles.
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DogHorse plop, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 10:40,
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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.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 10:45,
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Enzyme
You'd be asked in court to make an affirmation, rather than swearing on a relevant holy book.
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Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 11:23,
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Awwww
Somebody still holds hope that America will remember the whole 'separation of church and state' thing!
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Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 11:06,
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