religious people trip me out. I was listening to talk radio this morning on
the way in, and the gist of it seemed to be that the HPV vaccination is a
big conspiracy to... something. How can anyone possibly think that
preventing cancer is a bad thing???

On 2/7/07, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A bill is coming up in the north carolina general assembly that would
> allow
> people in north carolina courts to swear oaths by "the bible or any other
> text sacred to that person's religious faith"
>
> Anyway, the local conservative talk radio show host here in the afternoons
> (WPTF Raleigh) seemed to think that this was a bad thing, because swearing
> on the bible is tradition and it's been that way for a long time.
>
> Personally, I think you should be allowed to swear by any book you choose
> -
> or by no book at all, for the non-religious types out there.  Pinky swear
> on
> your mother's grave.  Whatever.
>
> I'd rather see a jewish person swear on the Torah, or a muslim person
> swear
> on the koran.  Some christians might choose not to swear on the bible,
> because they seem to believe the bible says you shouldn't ever take oaths.
> (I don't agree)
>
> For that matter, if some schmuck decides to swear his or her oath on "Who
> Stole My Cheese", or "The Far Side Anthology" or "The Anarchist's
> Cookbook"
> (uh oh, I've just been put on a government watch list), so be it!
>
> Yes, it's a tradition.  So was slavery.
>
> --
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>
>
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