slowmutant wrote:
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Court of law has nothing to do with morality.
That must be why OJ Simspon was never convicted for the double-homicide he committed.
That must also be why everybody swears on the Bible.
Seriously though, morality is the foundation of any legal system.
I really wasn't trying to start a PPR flame war - but here's my experience.
1) No bible swearing. Witnesses were asked to raise their right hand and to swear to "Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." No swearing to a god either.
2) We were specifically told by both the prosecutor and the defense attorney that we could only use the facts to decide the case. If there was behavior involved that we were morally against (by either the defendant, police or others) we
could not use our moral compass to decide the verdict of the case. Yes it is true that the legal system was originally based on moral values. I probably should have written:
t0 in hindsight wrote:
Participating as a juror in a court of law does not require an individual to override/interfere with God's moral judgement. The juror's only decision is whether or not the defendant violated mans' law. Your god will make the only judgement as to whether or not the defendant lived a morally correct life.
I still think it's BS to claim religious exemption based on an objection of judgement. The bible clearly indicates that God's law is above mans' law - which means they are separate entities.