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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
I'd take swearing on the Koran, or Torah just as seriously out of respect for the books, but more importantly because of the seriousness of the situation and my own morals/ethcis, and I'd imagine most people would feel the same way, but if they'd rather swear an oath on their book of choosing, that's fine by me, whatever makes you feel that it is a binding oath will do.
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Right... and he feels that swearing on the Koran is a binding oath, he doesn't feel the same way about the bible. I think its a pretty archaic form of 'oath-swearing' anyway, in a secular state you should just raise your hand and say "I do" in response to a prepared statement by the judge. This putting a hand on a book business, regardless of its religious nature or connotations, seems absurd to me. If the judicial system is a secular non-religious institution I don't see why swearing on the bible/koran/any religious material is required. And if it is, you should be able to swear on whichever one
you want, not whichever one other people think you should. Its a distortion of the separation of government and church, in my opinion.