Should the Bible continue to be used for swearing-in ceremonies and in courtrooms?

Yes

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by Carrington M. Nye

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The Holy Bible is our [America's] most treasured Holy Christian possession. We look upon it with reverence; it is our guide, our rock and the hub of our faith, our very foundation.

America, founded upon Christian ideals and values, has placed the importance and meaning of the Holy Bible above all other relics of old; it has survived the Wars, the millennia, Rulers who would have destroyed it, Banishment, and much more; and it has come through it all with the grace and inspiration that only the word of God can. To have survived to modern day is a true testament to its infallibility.

That Man has looked to it for guidance in times of crisis, depravation, illness, and death is yet more testaments to the power of the Word.

America has had an almost awed existence with the Bible and all that it teaches. We need it as we need oxygen to breathe and bread to eat. It is a teacher, a guide and a comfort to the heart of Man.

To the agnostic and the faithless, it is meaningless and therefore cannot be perceived in any way as a threat to their beliefs and/or their feelings, as far as these particular people are concerned, they might as well be swearing atop a banana or a Harlequin novel. Therefore to give any credence to any argument that they [the non-believers] might put forth to deny the majority are null.

We as a Nation cannot discount the tremendous power of the Word of God, the Holy Bible; we have held it to our hearts, read its passages and been comforted by its innumerable lessons. To deny it would be to throw away our own histories, our own basic fundamental faiths and to tear away what is at our own cores as Americans, as a people of Christianity.

For at our very Birth [of our Nation] the Bible was there to guide us and to lead us ever onward. Our Forefathers, our Ancestors, and the Freedom Fighters of our very land looked to it for our very existence as a great Nation. We must not ever turn our backs upon it; it is as fundamental to the American way as is our Flag, our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.

Yes, the Word of God should continue to be exalted in our higher institutions, in our ceremonies and our rites. For without it, we are baseless men and women of a Nation without an anchor. Our Nation without the Holy Word would be a Nation of human frailty and human imperfection that cannot survive without the guidance of a higher power, a power that at its very roots has been seen by millions as the right and the just.

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