Sennett fighting itself because it has lost God

Friday, August 8, 2008 11:40 AM EDT

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

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dd wrote on Aug 9, 2008 9:54 AM:

" He isn't the dark holy lord satan--he's a heck of a good hockey player satan--plays for Buffalo. Actually, again another misspelled word--switch the words around--they actually were worshipping Santa. Kind of like Cato. The only good thing about Cato is that you can swap the letters around to spell taco, MMMMMMMMMMMM. "

anonymous wrote on Aug 9, 2008 1:07 AM:

" I thought it was because thet had embraced the dark holy lord Satan. Thanks for setting me straight! "

dd wrote on Aug 8, 2008 2:35 PM:

" Oh jeez---he meant to say DOG--he just misspelled. They lost their dog. Why would losing a dog ever be the downfall of any town? "

brew1234 wrote on Aug 8, 2008 11:22 AM:

" God has no place in the working business of our government. I believe in God but don't want some zealot forcing it down my throat. Keep your religious beliefs to yourself. "

irritated wrote on Aug 8, 2008 7:36 AM:

" This has to be one of the stupidest things I have ever read... Get a grip! "

karl wrote on Aug 8, 2008 12:14 AM:

" Dale just showed what a primitive and under-developed sense of morality--and a cynical view of Humankind--he possesses.
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:

" Dale great letter and you are so right on good job. Sennett is hanging it self slowly but for sure "

interested wrote on Aug 7, 2008 4:54 PM:

" Wow. Just wow. "

interested wrote on Aug 7, 2008 4:29 PM:

" Just when I thought I read it all, I came across this gibberish. Thanks for wasting the 5 seconds it took to read this. 5 seconds I will never get back. "

karl wrote on Aug 7, 2008 2:36 PM:

" Oh brrrOTHER!!!!
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!!!! "

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