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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Why wouldn't I? If I am asked to swear an oath on a bible my oath wouldn't be worth anything if sworn on some holy relic in which have no faith.
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Because its just a book, might as well have been swearing on a Cosmo magazine. If it makes other people feel you are going to tell the truth, who cares?
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As for a wedding, I actually took my wedding seriously. Why would I make vows before a God which I don't believe to exist. If I am going to take my public vow seriously, why would I start on a foundation of hypocrisies?
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I took my marriage seriously, the wedding could have been in a public rest room for all the location mattered to me. My wife wanted a church wedding in her home town church even though she is not religious either. So why make a point of calling out the belief of my relatives and hers by insisting it not be in a church? I don't believe in their invisible friend in the sky, so to me its just a formal looking building. My wedding was between my wife and myself, and not on a foundation of hypocrisies. It took a lot less effort and upset a lot less people by just having in a church.