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Grrr. Coworker G wanted me to reassure her that Obama had in fact used a Bible when making his oath. Oy. (In the first place, he did. In the second, so what if he hadn't?)

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Can't trust those negro's, especially the muslim ones.

Some people. Is this co-worker smart enough to hold a job?

One thing's for sure; this election has not convinced me that racism is history in the U.S.

You speeled "muslin" wrong.

I wonder what she would make of Franklin Pierce?

(I want to know what law book Pierce used...)

John Quincy Adams, too - and constitutional law at that :)

I've always said that in a similar circumstance, I'd probably want a dictionary...

You know, I bet the unabridged OED stacks tall enough...

Sure, but out of misplaced nationalism I think I'd probably use an American Heritage Dictionary.

Still a respectable toad-killer, and a good dictionary to boot.

Game. Set. Match. ROFL.... hard.

If the impossible happened, I'd beg for an original of the US Constitution.

Only reference that I could find said, simply, "A book of the Law". Pierce also affirmed the Oath of Office, rather than swore the Oath of Office.

Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy didn't place their hands on a Bible, although in both cases there was one nearby.

How does she think it would change the next 4 years if it weren't a bible? Was s/he worried that it was a Koran or just a nice old leather-bound book? Hey! Maybe it was a copy of "Moby Dick"?

This would be the "liberal Northeast" so fabled in story and song, would it?

Yup, we have intolerance up here, too.

Mostly for people from Away.

You aren't from around here, are you?

Should have snuck The Necromonicon in there just for giggles. Or Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide", with the DON'T PANIC button clearly visible.

{facepalm}

You can reassure it was a bible a very special one.

It was the same bible used in Lincoln's inauguration.

Is that good enough for her????

Is it just cause I'm in Illinois? I THOUGHT there was some "to do" about it being the Bible Lincoln used.

A (Humanist) friend of mine and I were talking once. In court if you're an Atheist you don't need to swear on a Bible, but if you're a Christian you swear on a Bible. Does that mean that an Atheist's word is "good enough" but a Christian's isn't unless the Christian swears on a symbol of their G-d??

Are you sure? It was a big thick book, with latches or something. Might have been a Grimoire.

From my perspective - no, it isn't a Bible, though it does bear some similarities in the opening chapters. :-)

Tell her that it was a Quran, but that it was the copy of the Quran that Abe Lincoln used. Make up some tale of how Lincoln received it as a gift from "The Sultan of Araby" way back in 1860, just before he was elected, and he decided to use it because the curvy swervy funny writing looked so nice.

Some people are so confused and stuffed fulla nonsense, there's almost no point in trying to straighten them out, so you might as well feed them some extra-ridiculous hooey. That way, when they express their "ideas", people can tell even more quickly that they're a nincompoop.

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