Discussion: Moore Spox Falls Silent When Told Bible Isn't Required For Oaths Of Office

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You can teach the ignorant but you cannot teach the stupid. I should know, having been a lecturer in a medical school for 45+ years.

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Clearly more evidence of the rampant, unchecked persecution of christians in this country.

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I wonder what that spokesman’s thinking on “freedom of religion” and the 1st amendment is. Assuming of course that he can think. I mean, technically one could swear in with a blank piece of paper or nothing at all.

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I refer you to one of TPM’s wiser commenters:

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Alabama homeschooling, folks.

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In this case it’s not the teaching that’s the question. It’s assuming I guess that there may be a random thought bouncing around his cranium.

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"Crockett remained silent for several more seconds, then said, “I know that Donald Trump did it, when we made him President.”

Oh gads, what a joke! That sounds like a 6 year old trying to rationalize some feat of deviltry.

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Think about how dumb and uneducated the median Republican spokesman is, and then realize half of 'em are actually dumber and less educated than that.

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And because this is America, even the stupid get to vote. God bless America!

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My dad woulda called me a “wiseacre”. (snicker)

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“You have to swear on a Bible to be an elected official in the United States of America."

Archie: "G-d made one true religion, Edith, which he named after his son, Christian - or ‘Christ’, for short.”

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Watching him process the news that you don’t have to swear on the bahble was like watching a 1970s art film. His whole understanding of reality seemed to be shifting in those long painful seconds.

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The cheeseburger was more interesting.

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What does this fucking moron think Schumer, or any of a number of Jewish people in Congress, swore in on? This is the kind of stupid where you tense up and become fearful when you see him using a letter opener.

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I hadn’t watched the clip at first and had to go back. Whoa! That was a class deer in the headlights moment for sure. This is what happens when people create their own world view and never actually check out how it stacks up against reality.

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Deists wrote our Constitution to keep you Bible thumping assholes from taking over our country.

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Doesn’t really matter. This is the operative section:

US Constitution, Article VI, paragraph 3
[N]o religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

Period. End of discussion.

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His own fucking client has farted up a stink about how Keith Ellison shouldn’t have been allowed to use a Quran for his swearing-in. Did the spokesman think Moore was talking about a hypothetical? Does the spokesman even know who Keith Ellison is? Has he ever heard of the Congressman?

It’s fractally stupid, turtles all the way down.

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Theocrats are the dumbest people because they consider a Bronze Era book of contradictory Jewish thought and fantasy both inerrant and somehow a practical guide for today…except for the inconvenient stuff, of course. Such as: https://www.alternet.org/belief/11-kinds-bible-verses-christians-love-ignore

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