Can’t we have a fucking elected official that doesn’t have to swear he’s gonna do the right thing without invoking some magical being in the sky?
Hell, all the other elected officials have sworn on the bible, and they’ve all been found to be corrupt or depraved in some way or other. So clearly religious shit is no guarantee that the faithful is righteous.
In fact, I’d argue that the more religious, the more suspicious. And don’t take my word for it, just look at history.
Try reading the fucking article.
Your knee jerk response is just mindless drivel, something to expect from the right-wing snowflakesphere.
I’m an atheist and a firm believer in Thomas Jefferson’s statement that there should be “a wall of separation between church and state”; in this instance, Mamdani’s choice to use a specific Quran from the NY public library collection sends a strong message of inclusion.
OTOH I agree. OTO, it’s nice to see the right get trolled every once and a while.
Well you’re right: Mamdani’s Quran-swearing idiocy has one redeeming quality: it’ll make the MAGAts lose their shit.
Religion does indeed need to fuck off. Practice it in your own home, if you have to.
No, you don’t deserve such officials.
Who gives a damn. Will he do whst he promise or not? That’s all whst matter
^ Doesn’t realize one can swear an oath on any book.
You’re mad over something is has never been true in America.
To be sure, many politicians choose to swear in on a Bible, but it’s not required. In recent years, officeholders have placed their hands on volumes of municipal codes, Dr. Suess books, the U.S. Constitution, copies of the Quran or other documents.
Yeah. Any blind devotion is a key sign of an illogical mind. I don’t want anyone like that as an elected official. Unfortunately that’s a fact of the world most are unwilling to accept.
LET’S START SEEING THOSE BILLIONAIRES LEAVE NOW BOIS. THEY WOULDN’T LIE TO US, RIGHT?
Wasn’t it California that was planning a retroactive one-time billionaire tax for every billionaire living there on 1/1 -26? Saw at least two looking to move before then, but don’t know if anything came of it.
I once caused a judge to do that gavel bang “order in the court” thing because I refused to swear in on a Bible and instead insisted on a copy of “The Origin of Species” and a couple of people started talking in the (admittedly nearly empty) courtroom. It wasn’t some massive riot where people are calling for me to be tossed in jail, just some whispers that irritated the judge.
But it counts!
My own mother even commented I should have just used the Bible like everyone else and stop making things about how I don’t believe in God, and that my testimony shouldn’t have been allowed because it wasnt on a Bible. This was a court hearing involving my sister and her ex, and I was supporting my sister as a witness, and our mother was saying it should be thrown out because it wasn’t sworn on the Bible.
I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before the federal government tried to make it so you have to swear to trump on a gold copy of his Bible and anything else is either nullified or straight up illegal.
He talked a good game, I hope he delivers.
Best of luck to him and NYC
