Not so...
“Not so...”
It’s very hard to have a conversation with a lack of specificity. I’ll take a wild guess that you are referring to my assertion that using the phrase “so help me God” has always been customary.
If you read the context of what I said in the prior two posts, you’ll see that I pointed out that some groups, such as Quakers, did not do so. There may have always been conscientious objectors so-to-speak. But it has also always been historically customary in this nation to invoke God at swearing in.
A lot of folks want to rewrite history to argue these words should not be included. As you’ve pointed out, they’ve never been mandatory. But I assert they’ve always been customary. It is what people have traditionally said since before the nation began. It is like answering the phone with “hello” (or “bueno” if you’re Hispanic). No one makes you do these things, but they are customary.
The left will continue to align itself with God-haters who will try to remove all references to Him in history and modern ceremony. Who do they suppose the founders were referring to when they said our inalienable rights were endowed to us by our Creator?