I feel like there’s something very wrong when every politician has to end a speech with God bless the USA. I’d rather they wish me a good evening.
Plus believers think the one must find God for salvation. So even if they never talk about religion, they silently believe that God is the only answer and that excludes atheism. So why can’t atheists similarly exclude God?[/quote]
You can. In court, you don’t have to swear on a Bible. You can affirm, no?
Personally, I think if you were atheist, and were going to lie, it shouldn’t matter to you anyway whether you are asked to swear on a Bible or not.
Afterall, if you don’t believe, then the Bible is fiction to you and, hence, it would mean less to you to swear on it (and lie) than to affirm you will tell the truth with your word (and lie). Afterall, swearing on the Bible and lying has absolutely no “higher-level” consequences beyond the court of humans.
So hence, what I’m surprised is why more atheists don’t swear on the Bible versus just affirming, since they don’t believe it anyway, and rarely do people in court really end up telling 100% of the truth anyway. You might as well go all out and do everything that can possibly go against the grain of religion, since there absolutely aren’t any consequences 🙂
