(June 20, 2013 at 9:46 pm)cato123 Wrote: It depends. If you are the defendant, by all means, leave your imprint on the Bible and swear to tell the truth. Whether you actually tell the truth or not is immaterial. You don't want to give the jury, which statistically is almost 80% Christian, an excuse to hate you regardless of the facts of litigation.If you're the defendant, you probably shouldn't be testifying at all. But if you are, you can have an affirmation arranged beforehand so you don't have to go through the "I'm an atheist" stuff in the middle of open court.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
