I ask this because although many people have lost sight of this, and now many consider this to be a "Christian Nation", the fact is that the first 6 presidents (founding fathers) were NOT Christian. As a matter of fact, George Washington made a point of stating that is country is not founded on Christianity. The first settlers came here in part to escape the forced Catholicism of England. The first 6 presidents were actually "diests". They did not believe in the Bible, but rather believed that there was once a diety who created the Earth, put everything on it that man could possibly need, and then the Diety disappeared to leave mankind to use their brains and figure out how to put things to use to live and survive, etc...
Anyway, just a little background for the basis of my question. The origin of the law that was written forcing a witness to "swear under oath to tell the truth, the whole truth......" came directly from the Bible. One of the 10 commandments says something like
2006-08-30
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