Posted on 01/29/2019 9:42:29 AM PST by revivaljoe
A key committee in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is moving to eliminate the words "so help you God" from the oath administered to witnesses testifying before the panel, as part of a new rules package expected to be approved this week, according to a draft obtained exclusively by Fox News.
The draft shows that the House Committee on Natural Resources would ask witnesses to recite only: "Do you solemnly swear or affirm, under penalty of law, that the testimony that you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"
The rules proposal places the words "So help you God" in red brackets, indicating they are slated to be cut. Other rules changes relate to expanding the committee's authority over natural gas in Alaska and fossil-fuel resources.
While many federal oaths include the phrase "So help me God," some -- most notably the presidential oath of office -- do not.
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Only the righteous will invoke God’s help.
bttt
So as not to offend their true buddies, the muzzies.
When people have religious values, there is a public sense that there’s SOME authority higher than the government, that standards aren’t quite totally malleable.
Christianity is tightly married to the democratic impulse, and contributes to outrage and action when Gummint goes awry.
Da Gummint wants to rule over us w/o outside accountabiity.
The occupying tribe wants to live behind high walls with their dim-witted, areligious poltroons till fields and man factor assembly stations, asking no questions.
It’s a good thing there’s muzzies,
or it’d all be atheist’s fault again.
“So help me Mueller”
Back to the USSR
Will the substitute Allah or Satan?
IT HAS COME DOWN TO GOD VS SATAN
Why take an oath at all? It’s not like they plan to honor it.
As i they take oaths seriously in the first place.
I guess they don’t want to use God’s name when lying.
“They did not like to retain God in their knowledge...” Roman 1:28
" Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society." George Washington
"[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." Benjamin Franklin
"The moral principles and precepts contained in the scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. . . All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." Noah Webster
"Whereas true religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness . . . it is hereby earnestly recommended to the several States to take the most effectual measures for the encouragement thereof." Continental Congress 1778
"Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine. . . . Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other." James Wilson (signer of the Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
I know that morality changes over time, but I still think a "morality test" for those in public office has more upside than downside. JMHO.
After that settles in, they can add satan later...
Just what I was thinking.
They don’t care, but we do, and they will stick it to us any time they can.
There is no such thing as an Agnostic on a crashing Airplane.
“’DEAL WITH IT’ will be the only thing they’ll hear for an ETERNITY.”
And He will add: “... I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matthew 7:23 KJV
“There is no such thing as an Agnostic on a crashing Airplane.”
Once Dennis Miller said that he had been on a plane with a lot of born-again Christians going to a convention. The plane had problems and was descending fast. Passengers expected they would die. Miller said, “... and they didn’t CARE!”
God doesn’t listen to Congress anymore.
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