Swearing on the "Holy Scripture"?
 

What does this mean to you? This came up in a Greensboro, NC, courtoom and is now being debated.

See-
http://www.nbc17.com/news/4771968/de...s=tri&psp=news

Does this mean solely the Bible? Can Holy Scripture include other Holy books from other faiths?



NC Penguin

Re: Swearing on the "Holy Scripture"?
 

Why not do away with all the claptrap and just swear to tell the truth? Be much easier...

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This is true but some people feel the need to justify their actions by including the religious bit...



NC Penguin

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Ah, but I bet your guilty conscience can't strike you with a bolt of lightning when you lie!

...can it?

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If he had bolts of lightening in his arsenal, I'm sure BE wouldn't be here!

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Don't they give the option here of the Oath or Affirmation like they do at home? :confused:

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dont' know...wasn't given the option in my AOS interview....

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Me too, not that I was that bothered, school did the same.

I am sure that if it is allowed there will be some additional variations that will come up, just too tempting...

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Well I wasn't to impressed by it, but I wasn't about to kick up a fuss for something so trivial...should have done though looking back because I still haven't gotten my greencard :D

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Hmmm, what could atheists use? Hawking's A Brief History of Time? Monty Python's The Meaning of Life? Douglas Adam's Life, the Universe and Everything?, Darwin's Origin of the Species? Einstein's E=mc^2?

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The Meaning of Life, definitely.

So, if a non-believer such as myself is made to swear on a holy book, does that mean that the oath is invalid and in fact I'm not obliged to tell the truth?

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In a UK court you heathens would say:
I swear or affirm that the evidence you are about to give is “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth�.

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They've removed the Almighty God bit at the beginning then?

I've sworn to lots of things in this country, and I think they all involved god - and possibly a flag, but I can't remember.

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But if your chinese (I think) you say an oath and then you have to smash a saucer ...I saw it happen in a London Court ...weird...

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Now that I could get into. Like those drunken Greeks in restaurants when they appreciate the music...........oh never mind, that's another story.