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Please can we stop religious oaths in the legal process?

Anonymous | 17-Feb-2012 12:03 pm Sigh> There must be some element of law reform which is more pressing than this, surely. I never fail to be astonished by the militancy of the secular mafia. ------------------------ I am sorry if some people's objection to the imposition of a medieval world-view regarding intervention on the part of a supernatural being should someone engaged in legal proceedings break an oath bores you but dismissing those who raise a legitimate concern by describing them as militant criminals is not a very productive way to resolve the issue. A legal system should reflect the society in which it operates and, in the case of the UK in the 21st Century, that society is predominately secular. Even if you presuppose the existence of the supernatural, it cannot be right for faith-groups who attribute miraculous power to the written word to impose their brand of superstition on a system in which people with an increasingly diverse range of beliefs and those who do not accept the existence of the supernatural have to function together effectively.

20-Feb-2012

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