President Obama will use two Bibles to be sworn into office on Inauguration Day this year.

[quote]The Bible he used in his first inauguration, the Lincoln Bible, and Martin Luther King Jr’s Bible. *eyes rolling*

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• Honestly, I'm as against religion as the next guy, but give it a rest already.

• one Bible for the Earrings one Bible for the Caftans

• He's trying way too hard

• Hannity says one of them's the Mooooslum bible!

  FoxFanFrank

• Why would you roll your eyes about this? Man up!

• And he will wear two flag pins. He is twice as religious and twice as patriotic as the next guy.

• But, wait, isn't he a Muslim?

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• We will be a whole lot better off if he is not sworn in.

• Go fuck yourself, R8.

• Stop being so weird, OP.

• I think he might be using two Bibles because he's taking the Oath of Office twice. Once on Sunday the 20th, because that's when his second term officially begins, and once on Monday the 21st, which is when the public ceremony is being held.

  The Voice of the Night

• Dumb question: are they actually Lincoln's bible and MLKs? Do they ask their estate for it?

• That makes sense, r11. I thought at first he was going to use both at once.

• A battle not remotely worth fighting.

  Atheist

• He's so christian, hes a DOUBLE christian.

• [quote]Why would you roll your eyes about this? [/quote] Uncontrolled epilepsy?

• That's a lotta Bible!

• King James on the outside, Koran on the inside.

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• Ok r9 I will ...rolling eyes... See I am not a blind follower, just because he has said that he accepts gay marriage, doesn't mean I owe the worst President in history my allegiance. We have record unemployment, record inflation and homelessness, the middle class keeps getting soaked. Our economy is in free fall right now and we haven't even begun to see the worst of it yet...wait till the inflation has been holding down skyrockets. No one will be able to afford the cost of living. His insurance reform is going to kill us all. We are a nation in trouble and need a leader, not a "king". I can see the Emperor has no cloths, why can't you? So he hugged us gays, is he doing anything for us? NO! As Miss Jackson said "What have you done for me lately?"

• Ten I think would be plenty. Better still, make it twenty.

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• R19 You lost. Get over it.

• [quote]So he hugged us gays, is he doing anything for us? NO! As Miss Jackson said "What have you done for me lately?" History has already proven you wrong.

• F&F the OP and all who agree with this troll. Enough of the negativity against this beautiful man and president.

• The President must respected the Sky faeries!!!

  America...still%20scary

• VOTN, thanks. We were unaware it was Monday, not Sunday, so now I can plan accordingly.

• Some of you need to grow up, a large majority of people in the world are religious, move on and respect it. You want to be respected right? Do the same and shut up.

• Prepare to be bombareded with negativity r26 but you are exactly right. It's so upsetting to come here and read posts like the OP's and other trolls on this thread. It's very very sad.

• Really r22? I must have missed that ENDA was passed and gay marriage is now allowed at a federal level. Sorry, I didn't get my subscription to gay news updated today. And it's all about gay rights, right? What about the billions of unemployed with no hope in sight of getting a job? What about his terrible mismanagement of the economy? But you were properly "hugged" then spit on and that's all that mattered.

• [quote] a large majority of people in the world are religious, move on and respect it. You want to be respected right? Do the same and shut up. I bet you wouldn't respect it if he changed his mind tomorrow and swore on a copy of The Koran. Religious people will get respect when they come to respect the rights of other people who don't worship the same sky fairy.

• So, when did he get all MLKy?

• I don't care if he has forty bibles. Shudder to think what Romney would've had.

• Perhaps a Loser's Forum would better serve you, R28?

• He's going to swear on a stack of bibles that he's not going to take our guns away.

• R29, your assumption that people who respect religious people, somehow wouldn't respect him if he were of a different religion is embarrassingly stupid. How would you like to be stereotyped in that way, regarding homosexuality? It's not a one way streak, you can't just attack someone who is religious then get outraged when people make the same IDIOTIC action of doing the same to you. Your problem with religion is your own and no one elses.

• [quote]Some of you need to grow up, a large majority of people in the world are religious, move on and respect it. You want to be respected right? Do the same and shut up. Sorry, but this is false equivalency. People who are religious don't deserve respect for believing in fairy stories written by people hundreds or thousands of years ago. It just makes it obvious they are stupid.

• [quote]the worst President in history You don't know too much about American history, do you?

• [quote] It's not a one way streak Oh, dear.

• Do they make Jews swear on the Bible if they are elected to the Senate or Congress ...or God Forbid... President?

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• [quote]Why would you roll your eyes about this? Man up! Oh, dear.

• [quote]F&F the OP and all who agree with this troll. Enough of the negativity against this beautiful man and president. MAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRY!!!!!

• [quote]Do they make Jews swear on the Bible if they are elected to the Senate or Congress ...or God Forbid... President? At least up until the 1950s, Congress members were sworn in using the Jefferson Bible (TJ's personally edition version that omits all supernatural events & references to the divinity of Jesus). I would imagine these days it's left up to the discretion of the individual.

• JFK swore on the English translation of the Catholic Bible, the Douay-Rheims which, apparently, had traveled with his family from Ireland. No one objected to that. Well, not enough to prevent him being elected. So I am assuming when we have a Jewish president he or she can sware on the Jewish scriptures. (Oh, and yes, Catholics did read the Bible in their native languages -- after the Reformation at any rate.)

• The first openly gay president will swear on a box set of The Golden Girls.

• I'd swear on a stack of Restoration Hardware Catalogues

• This thread would be of interest both to DL and a lot of right-wing hysterics.

• [quote]TJ's personally edition version Sorry, meant to write "edited."

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• Libertarian Idiot alert!!

• R45...oh shut te fuck up, cunt. Look, we had to vote for him because the alternative was unthinkable. But if you can't tell, at this point, that's he an economic conservative and a war monger, then you are legally retarded.

• The Lincoln Bible was published in 1863. It was the bible he was sworn in with. I've got a double volume family bible published in 1845 sitting on my bookshelf. I'm not impressed. He could do better.

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• "What about the billions of unemployed" Gimme an M!!!

  The 311,600,000 US citizens

• The USA is a Christian Theocracy not a Republic.

• I'd use a signed copy of Satanic Verses.

• I'd do what Arizona bisexual non-believer Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema did: I'd use the Constitution.

  The Voice of the Night

• That is really in the spirit of Jesus r49. He really cared about the rich and well descended. It's right up there in tbe beatitudes. I have a cheap printed from Google Books copy of Douey-Rheims.

  r42

• Two Bibles = Twice the Bullshit.

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• All this bible shit needs to stop. You are swearing to uphold the Constitution, not to uphold any brand of christian gibberish.

• Ah, now I see. Both the MLK and Lincoln Bibles will be used on the 21st, but part of the reason is that the 21st is when MLK Day is observed. When he is sworn in privately on the 20th, he will be using Michelle's family Bible.

  The Voice of the Night

• [quote]Do they make Jews swear on the Bible I'm sure the Jewish people have a very nice book of their own.

  Miss%20Dove

• Ironically R28, you ARE the sheep follower. Everything you said is a constant talking point stream from Fox and all their Wing-nuts. Either that, or an impatient bitch, I cant decide. Has any other president come close to how much he as done for us? You lost, You Looser, go cry on Ann Romny's shoulder. I hear she is still having a pity party. Maybe you two should have a KIKI. Maybe she will let you park her cars for her.

• Is that the Bible Martin Luther King claimed to write and then it turned out he plagiarized it? Yes, that IS an historical artifact.

• R19 eats the feces of homeless people.

• The coolest one is our first Hindu representative being sworn in on her equivalent of our Holy texts(the Kama Sutra).

• I heard one of them is the "Satanic Bible" in honor of his mentor, Saul Alinsky who dedicated his book, "Rules for Radicals" to Lucifer.

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• Sadly R63 there are people posting and believing that on the Internet at this very moment. They might even cite datalounge as proof.

• One Bible will have the Q'uran inside. Second contains the Hadith.

• "Billions of unemployed." Boo hoo, idiot!