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Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Any court who tries to force an atheist to take an oath on any specific or generalized deity is guilty of subornation of perjury, actually since no evidence of the existence of any deity has ever been found through all of human history that actually applies to non-atheists as well. Any charges of contempt of court ( or equivalent ) for refusal to testify on this basis are false, since the real situation is not that the witness refused to testify, it’s that the court refused to listen.
Any court who tries to force an atheist to take an oath on any specific or generalized deity is guilty of subornation of perjury, actually since no evidence of the existence of any deity has ever been found through all of human history that actually applies to non-atheists as well. Any charges of contempt of court ( or equivalent ) for refusal to testify on this basis are false, since the real situation is not that the witness refused to testify, it’s that the court refused to listen.
David Killawee
North Bay, Ontario
Canada
Excellent!
To make an oath on a fake god allows the oath-takers to lie by law!
The god is a lie – the oath is a lie…