I’ve been thinking about that senator from MN who is Muslim and wants to swear with his hand on a Koran rather than a Bible … and something deep in my mind kept sticking up its hand and saying “pick me! pick me!” I finally called on it:
You know, they could go to the trouble to actually read the bible and discover that Jesus specifically says not to swear on, by, or to anything. Matthew, chapter 5, verse 30-ish:
But I say to you, do not swear at all; not by heaven, for it is God’s throne; nor by the earth, for it is his footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Do not swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black. Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ mean ‘No.’ Anything more is from the evil one.
So I guess it’s pretty clear where all this swearing on the bible “is from,” eh?
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