I attended the Sennett Zoning Board of Appeals meeting on Tuesday night and believe I have discovered why there is so much controversy in allowing the Bonca's restaurant to open. The ZBA has removed God from the town. When the clerk of the ZBA swears in a witness, she has them raise their right hand and asks, “do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you?”
So help you what? So help you on your mother's life? So help you or else? No. The phrase is: so help you God. The reason the word God is there is the expectation that the person swearing will have some fear that God will judge them if they lie.
Without the word God, it totally negates the purpose of having a witness swear to anything.
Dale J. Bush
Auburn
Without the word God, it totally negates the purpose of having a witness swear to anything.
Dale J. Bush
Auburn
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dd wrote on Aug 9, 2008 9:54 AM:
anonymous wrote on Aug 9, 2008 1:07 AM:
dd wrote on Aug 8, 2008 2:35 PM:
brew1234 wrote on Aug 8, 2008 11:22 AM:
irritated wrote on Aug 8, 2008 7:36 AM:
karl wrote on Aug 8, 2008 12:14 AM:
But for the presence of an imaginary "punisher" in the sky, Dale believes that all people would be rather more inclined to lie! Forget personal conscience. Forget Honor. Forget good parenting and Respect for the Law--in Dale's twisted mind, we only do tell the Truth because we're SKEERED that we might get zapped with lightning or something appropriately supernatural!
How utterly silly. How pathetically juvenile!
"Thank God" I gave up my religion for Atheism! LOL! "
maud wrote on Aug 7, 2008 7:59 PM:
interested wrote on Aug 7, 2008 4:54 PM:
interested wrote on Aug 7, 2008 4:29 PM:
karl wrote on Aug 7, 2008 2:36 PM:
Are you SERIOUS, Dale?
I mean...ARE YOU REALLY SERIOUS?
WOW! Thanks for the best "incredulous laugh" I've had this whoooole year!!
(pauses, reflects, reads letter again)..........are you SERIOUS?!!?
LMFAO!!!! "