If Christian Presidents swear in on a Bible...

[elfwitch]

and in theory a Jewish President would swear in on a Torah or a Muslim President would swear in on the Quran, what would an Atheist/Agnostic President swear in on?

A Sears catalog?
A stack of comic books?
A copy of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

What do you think? Going for a funny here... Be creative.

(p.s. - no intention of ANY slight to DU Atheists or Agnostics, this is just for fun - we love you guys!)

[arwalden]

1. I Imagine That We've Already Had An Atheist President Or Two

who chose to follow the tradition of the ceremony and use the Christian bible anyway. It will be many generations before an openly atheistic candidate is elected to be US president.

-- Allen

[NNadir]

32. Yeah, bigotry against Atheists is totally acceptible.

The older Bush, one of the worst people to occupy the White House until his son actually made him seem reasonable is known to have remarked that "Atheists are not Americans."

Were the impossible to happen and I was elected President, I'd probably choose the constitution as another poster suggested, although I'd secretly wish that I could get away with the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.

[trotsky]

2. The Constitution.

n/t

[pagerbear]

3. Good answer!!!!!!!

[trotsky]

8. Thanks!

In my opinion, that's what EVERY elected official SHOULD swear on.

[TlalocW]

4. A house of cards?

I'm sure there's some meaning in there. :)

TlalocW

[grannylib]

5. The Constitution...I don't think anyone should swear on any holy text,

nor use any oath other than "I will" or "I won't"
That's what the Bible says anyhow...so there, Freepers who think that presidents should swear on the Constitution to "uphold the Bible"
According to Scripture, they should not even be using "So help me God" if I am not mis-remembering my verses here....

[Burma Jones]

6. What they all should, the Constitution

[BlueEyedSon]

7. Since when does placing your hand on a book

(or claiming to be Christian) compel you to tell the truth?

The Bush admin flaunts their Christianity like none I can remember and can hardly tell the truth....

Anyway, it would be great if all elected officials swore on the Constitution, for starters!

[terrya]

9. If you notice, when they take the oath of office, they DON'T swear...

to tell the truth.

Presidential oath of office:

"I, (name), do solemnly swear to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States. And will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God".

That's it. No promise to tell the truth.

:-)

Terry

[BlueEyedSon]

10. Oops, youre right. My bad.

[elfwitch]

11. Come on folks! I was shooting for a funny here....

Be creative!!

[TXlib]

30. The First Lady's ass?

[elfwitch]

31. That's funny!!!

Do you swear on YOUR piece of ass to be the President and uphold the Constitution?

[camero]

12. A jokebook

They'll need it. I wouldn't want that job. All the ones that have it go grey very fast.

[elfwitch]

14. thank you!

Those are the kind of answers I am looking for!

[tekriter]

13. Script from The Holy Grail?

maybe not...

[tekriter]

15. Owner's manual to his first new car?

Very few things a man has more reverence for than his first new car...

[elfwitch]

17. this is true...

If it were me and I was an Athiest, I'd swear in on Action Comics #1 (the first appearance of Superman) which goes for about $350,000.

[GOPisEvil]

16. * should have been sworn in on a copy of "1984"

[elfwitch]

19. OR

Brave New World
OR
A Handmaids Tale

[Kolesar]

22. Mein Kampf /eom

[GOPisEvil]

23. Those are good too!

I saw "Catch-22" below. Another good choice.

[tekriter]

20. BINGO!

we may have a winner here!

[tekriter]

18. Maybe a copy of Catch-22??

:toast:

[kmla]

21. Or maybe * should have sworn in with his hand on a copy of

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar".

He seems to love it so much - he reads it to every children's group he has a photo-op with...

I opine that that book maxes out the talents of his reading capability...

[PragMantisT]

24. Being and Nothingness

oooh and in French too.

[elfwitch]

25. good one!

n/t

[PragMantisT]

26. * was sworn in on a copy of Necronomicon (sp) n/t

[elfwitch]

27. No that was Evil Ash!

n/t

[Ricdude]

28. The Principia Discordia. n/t

[TXlib]

29. The constitution.

That's what they should all swear on.