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25 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
If the intent is to prevent morally compromise leaders from getting elected, maybe instead of having Presidents swear in on Bibles they should have to swear in on their tax returns and financial records?
A fucking five year old can pinky promise on a Bible that they won’t do things Jesus said were no-nos; but just like I lied to my Sunday School teachers, it turns out that swearing a book of fables is WAY less morally useful than revealing all of your tax & financial records.
I’m not mocking anyone’s faith but the whole “swear on the Bible that you’ll be a Good Boy” thing immediately conjures imagery of a kid in a Norman Rockwell painting crossing his fingers behind his back. It’s COMICALLY stupid, archaic, and meaningless ritual.
Exactly. But I am saying that swearing on your faith actually means NOTHING, because some of the most evil people in history were betraying their own faith. Tax records are hard data documents that don’t need mystical interpretation; it’s INSANE we don’t require them from pols.

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