Posted on 11/23/2009 5:43:48 AM PST by Bulldawg Fan
MARIETTA - City Councilman Van Pearlberg objected this week to the phrase "So help me God" included in the oath of office that Marietta police officers are required to say.
Pearlberg, a senior assistant district attorney, said it's been his experience that when citizens take the stand from time to time, making them swear to God can be a problem.
"A lot of people won't swear on a Bible. Their religious beliefs won't allow them to swear," Pearlberg said.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
If you can’t swear to God in Georgia, we are in more trouble than I thought.
Oh for cryin out loud.
Remember this name. He'll make a great Democrat candidate for something. His rise will be meteoric.
I got an idea....
If you got a problem with God, give us our money back because “In God We Trust” is on every piece of money we make.
Y’all can donate it to me.
“But liberals have no problem with “Allahu Akbar!” Go figure. “
I figured it out just fine. The man is scum!
Anyways, nobody is forced to swear on the bible to be a police officer. They are perfectly free to be a cabbie or haul trash. They could even be a doctor (if they don't mind taking the hippocratic oath).
Maybe my interpretation is wrong, but doesn’t the Bible even say in Matthew 5:34-37 not to swear to God?
“But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
I have always thought this meant one should not swear to God. But I had never thought about this with relation to swearing into court till just now.
If you can’t swear to God in Georgia, we are in more trouble than I thought.
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Chances are this clown originally came from some Northern state.
My husband and I visited SC last spring for the first time. We were in the Myrtle Beach area, and I was astounded by the large number of NY transplants there. Explains a lot about liberal swings going on in that state. Sad.
Swearing by ones head is that sort of swearing, as you can see if you read the Arabian Nights.
Taking an oath to tell the truth in a court of law is quite another thing. And taking a solemn oath that you really mean occurs throughout the Bible, and St. Paul refers to it favorably in the letter to the Hebrews, Ch. 6, v. 16-17: "For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath."
That of course has not stopped Quakers and others from taking their own interpretation of the Bible to mean that they cannot swear an oath in a court of law. But St. Paul also said that "the magistrate does not bear the sword in vain". Romans 13:4.
I guess I don’t see the big deal.
Ok, I see. Thanks for clearing that up for me
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