Why would you apply for a job and the FIRST OFFICIAL thing you do is not in standing of what the rules are?
Like Rush used to say....You wanted a McDonalds franchise and the first thing you did was want to do was make it vegetarian.
If your idea is so good and so many people want it that way, START your own business and do what pleases YOU, don’t use MY name to further your business when you want nothing to do with the way I operate.....
Well, something like that and if Rush didn’t say it, I just did, so I guess I would be guilty of the same thing...<:
What rule requires anyone to swear an oath of office on a Bible?
Is the “rule” that you must swear on a Bible? If so it’s a stupid rule, because an oath thereupon to those for whom it is just another book would be meaningless. The point of an oath is that there be consequences for the person taking it, if only to their own conscience.
Why do we still have oaths, anyway? Whether it’s a good thing or not they’re as anachronistic as calling lawyers “esquire.” We break contracts, even, willy-nilly. Oaths of office are downright feudal. Unless we begin again lopping off the heads of oathbreakers like in Game of Thrones, I suggest we drop the charade.
Then again, rituals can be meaningful even should no one understand their significance. Then again again, empty rituals which everyone knows to he empty mock ritualism. It’s not that the ceremonies still Kean something without fitting into the contemporary culture. We know what they’re suppose to mean and know also that they don’t mean that anymore.