It truly is amazingly gratifying to see such genuine people as Mamdani & "The Squad" successfully stepping up to make a difference, and enough people actually voting for them to win. It's honestly the only hope I have left in this shithole.

So, you are saying, technically, I could swear on the script to the Office?

If he swore in on a bible, or any other book, they would say he's avoiding a quran on purpose because he doesn't actually want to swear an oath on it

No matter what he did, they were prepared to complain

Does he though? When we were sworn in at MEPS, we didn't swear "on" anything. We held our hands up as a group and swore "to" protect The Constitution. Clearly that oath didn't mean as much to many veterans as it did to my friends and me.

Most of the people who've sworn an oath to defend the constitution from domestic enemies — literally tens of millions of Americans — have completely ignored their oath.

They're a meaningless virtue signal at this point.

Exactly. Complete separation of church and state is the need

Nah, I love that the chuds will get immensely mad at this. It's incredibly amusing!

The quiet part they're not saying is that in their minds the fact he doesn't "believe" in their precious book (not that they follow it much themselves) invalidates him both as a politician and a person. It's just a more "politically acceptable" excuse for their irrational fear/hatred of someone different from them - they're afraid all the bullshit they've been programmed to believe all their lives about outsiders being out to get them is now going to come to fruition, and they'll pick at the most absurd things to claim it's true rather than admit they might be wrong.

Bible is def on that list

Permanently clutching their pearls and wailing.

To be fair, they actually kinda live in the US?

Thanks for sharing your 2 centimetres

Oxygen? Yes, we need it to breathe.

My undergrad physics textbook

I don't think many politicians think they will face any divine reprisal either. They swear an oath on a bible, then do all the heinous things they do

Kissinger swore an oath on a bible, then signed off on the deaths of tens of thousands

Trump swore an oath on a bible, then spent his first year protecting pedophiles

Rick Scott swore an oath on a bible, shortly after stealing hundreds of millions from tax payers

Personally, I might go for the Bill of Human Rights, or similar (I'm honestly not studious enough to have read it myself to know if it's lacking in some way, but whatever similar document best serves as what such a document should be would be the one I'd go for).

I'd take an oath on DVDs of TNG season 5.

Given the critical mind that led you to your current atheistic beliefs (what I did there? :P), you have to have developed a mature moral code. I’d argue that taking an oath on something at the core of your being would be more binding than taking one based on any external books or faith system. (Muslim here btw but I love philosophy)

Most people of faith don’t realise how most atheists develop strong intrinsic morality by necessity during their journey. And I’m not saying that all atheists are morally superior! (Humans be humans)

This is just an observation based on my experiences and discussions with most of the open-minded ones I’ve come across thus far.

Education beats indoctrination any day. And the well-informed believer has to go through an atheism phase (to varying degrees, so YMMV) to be honest with themselves. Doubt is a perquisite of developing independent morality that confirms faith. At least that’s what I believe.

Edit: also to anyone reading this, don’t ask me about religious stuff, I’m not an Imam or anything. Just someone who went through some heavy shit and had to think outside the framework to make their life work.

I’d pick a Calvin and Hobbes book

I've settled on either the constitution (for federal office) or a sword, as in- if oath is broken, use this.

Maybe Carl Sagan's A Demon-Haunted World

Makenzie Lystrup (NASA director) swore in on Pale Blue Dot.

Yes

Believing in the bible.

He wasn't born on the USA

The idea is that the document you swear on has meaning to you. Politicians don't give a flying fuck about the constitution so long as it lines their wallets and keeps them fat and happy. Swearing on a document is inane and meaningless and it's 100% for show. It's meant to keep the people happy for whom the document they are swearing on, holds meaning to in the first place. Make them swear on a signed contract that states, not upholding the written law would mean forfeiting their lives and then maybe it might mean something, as long as there were some enforcement behind that sort of thing.

Asking an officiary to print a specific nhentai no. so you can swear your oath on it would be the funniest fucking thing ever