Activists challenge oath taking in North Carolina Courts
GUILFORD COUNT, NC (Roto Reuters) Last week Guilford County judges rejected an offer by the Greensboro Islamic center to donate copies of the Quran prompting The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to appeal to the state's judges. The Administrative Office of the Courts will ask the opinion of the state's judges when they meet this week at judicial conferences in Asheville and Wrightsville Beach, said Dick Ellis, a spokesman for the office.
Presently anyone who objects to using the Bible to may take an oath by raising their hand and affirm to tell the truth.
This move has prompted the American Atheist Society to ask that atheists also be allowed to take an oath on an object that meets their approval. Dee Nygod, a spokesman for AAS, has requested that North Carolina courtrooms also supply and make available objects that respect the beliefs or nonbeliefs of atheists by allowing them to take an oath on for example a bowl of primordial soup. "To us life could be called sacred and so the means of the development of life would also be sacred. A bowl of amino acids charged with electricity from an AA battery would be quite appropriate. Alternatively a small machine that simulates the type of hydrothermal vents called Black smokers would also be suitable for for those of us who follow this model of the creation of life. Or perhaps a small meteor for those who follow the Fred Hoyle hypothesis of terrestrial microbiological life being seeded from an Extraterrestrial life source."
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How ironic! I'm planning a Quron Desecration Party this weekend and I was looking for a source of free books. I was starting to despair, and then I came here looking for solace, and voila!! I'll get in contact with these nice folks.
Truly sir, you perform a valuable public service by posting these announcements.
Oh, that IS funny. And there are so many take-offs possible... Perhaps
* Primordial Soup - We've only just begun to cook
* Primordial Soup - a great way to start
* Primordial Soup - Now with noodles!
* Primordial Soup - You want some crackers with that?
etc.
Regarding the "life didn't start here, it came from another planet" idea:
In 1924 Edison was pushing that kind of argument. And Chesterton posted a hilarious comment in his Illustrated London News column, since he did not have access to the INTERNET as yet. (He did, however, have a Blogg; he was married to her! Hee hee.)
Here is a choice sample of that column:
[Edison says] "I believe the form of energy that we call life came to the Earth from some other planet or at any rate from somewhere out in the great spaces beyond us." In short, there will henceforth be branded upon our brains the conviction that life came from somewhere, and probably under some conditions of space. But the suggestion that it came from another planet seems a rather weak evasion. Even a mind enfeebled by popular science would be capable of stirring faintly at that, and feeling unsatisfied. If it came from another planet, how did it arise on that planet? And in whatever way it arose on that planet, why could it not arise in that way on this planet? We are dealing with something admittedly unique and mysterious: like a ghost. The original rising of life from the lifeless is as strange as a rising from the dead. But this is like explaining a ghost walking visibly in the churchyard, by saying that it must have come from the churchyard of another village.
[GKC, Illustrated London News May 3, 1924 CW33:321-322]
"I swear on this troll doll that the testimony I am about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me Papa Smurf."
How do you reckon that'll go over to a jury?
I can see the moment they allow for "approved objects" lawyers immediately objecting that the very swearing in of a witness with said objects would unduly prejudice a jury!
I would think the latest copy of Mad Magazine would do the job for them, or "The Inner Peace", by Mick Jagger. Or Hey, the spring and summer JC Penney's catalog!( It says, everything you want in one book!!)