12-27-2006, 11:42 AM
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| Account Deleted Join Date: Dec 2006 Gender:  Posts: 4,108 Country:  Points: 16,625, Level: 82 | Level up: 55%, 225 Points needed |  |  Well Alias, I tried my hand at sarcasm...guess I don't wear that too well, huh? This that I wrote though is to me the heart of the matter: Quote: |
Best to instead get him to put his hand on the Bible and be a hypocrite, being sworn in with a book he does not believe in.
| The man was already elected by the Minnesota voters in the 5th District. They voted a Muslim man into office. Now you think he ought to be made to be sworn into office on a book he does not believe in? What does that say to a watching world? And worst of all, the absolute worst of all, is that men have sworn on the Bible countless times, and yet not believed its contents, not lived their lives or practiced their role as statesmen by the tenets set forth in its pages. Its time to do away with swearing in on any kind of "holy book" imho... Either as a believer, let your light so shine before men, by being an open book in how you live, or don't be a believer and demonstrate to the people, the ethics and value system that you do live by. And once the people vote, guess they are electing who represents their own principles best. Here, I will even throw this out to you, and that using a man you would disdain. Did President Clinton swear on the Bible? And in his inaugural speech, did he not clearly repeat verses from its text? Do you think the ship stayed afloat while he was in office because somehow he was appropriating the Word of God in his official duties because he put his hand on the Bible? Any problem in this country, any problem at all, is not solved by what book is used to swear someone into office, is not solved by statesmen who are most aptly called "representatives"... The problems in our country are those found in the lives of the average Joe Citizen... if swearing on the quaran is such a point in a new downward spiralling trend of America at its best, then the problem if it is a problem is found in the minds of those who chose to vote for a practicing Muslim. I really do wonder what you think is worse...a man who believes in a false God, or a man who claims to believe in the true God but then dethrones the true God to establish his own reign of power politics. OD PS...as an added thought, how would you feel if an atheist wanted to be sworn in using the book, The Blind Watchmaker? |