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dammit, I clicked on this prepared to post that vid in response to whatever was posted.

Sometimes Carlin is on. Sometimes he's not.

The whole Bible/swearing to God practice comes from a time when people (at large) had moral reverence for such things and most would not consider lying after giving an oath before God.

Nowadays, most courts don't use Bibles nor even require you to "so help me God." They just want an affirmation that you will answer truthfully (as to lay the ground for perjury/lying under oath).

He is correct about the Bible being used as a means of mass control. I'm amazed at how much garbage "Christians" adhere to out of dogma which I know is not founded in the Bible, but rather clever twisting of scripture to use guilt and fear to control those who believe.

Why does he think that God did anything. Men made the systems of law, and they came up with what they came up with.

The Angry Arab said on his blog that he request to swear the oath on a cookbook.

I would swear on the bible and then ask if I can still lie because I'm not a christian.

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Avarice & theoddgoat: yes, yes, you're not Christians, we get it already

You say 'we' as if you thought of being a christian as some sort of norm?

No, I just don't see any point in them rubbing it in everybody else's faces.

well at the very least Avarice seems to be.

Thank you Kalikimaka. You made my day. That was the funniest thing I saw all week.

I would swear on a bible, but I would make it obvious that I think of ti as a joke. In all seriousness, swearing on the bible is just another stupid custom some idiot made. It says nothing about your religion.

Please, no George Carlin.

He used to be a fair comedian decades ago, but in his later years he got comfortable and used his HBO specials to preach to people on how to live their lives, how to parent their children, and what political philosophy to believe in, rather than actual comedy.

He shouldn't be criticizing any political system, unless he can propose a better plan. Moreover, most of his arguments against the system are witty phrases, puns, word plays, and juvenile jokes which hold no merit even though they sound eloquently.