Sunoverbeach wrote:Wasn't a smiting but he made Judas feel really really bad after that one dinner party
so, then, like after a Seder few years ago?
In our judicial system, it's nice to make believers who aren't involved in the system feel God's involvement, but the real deterrent is not smiting, it's jail.
I could easily live without the unnecessary and ineffective bows to religion in matters of government and justice.
It's symbolic, but does nothing...except alienate non believers born with the same rights. Dropping the phrase won't encourage believers to commit perjury, unless they are already religious hypocrites pretending they got an escape clause from honesty.
if any true believers find anything in the above to be insulting, I wish they'd read it slower. Your beliefs are not in question nor under attack.