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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
That's not nice. You're going to get her in trouble.
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A boy's got to find his fun where he can.
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Yeah there are affirmations, and you do often swear BY something, but I don't think it requires God to make it mean anything...
Nor is an "affirmation" less valid.
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Right -- legally, both are valid and binding (in the sense of being made under penalty of perjury). The point is an affirmation is not an oath. An oath, by definition, is a solemn promise coupled with "an appeal to a sacred or venerated object, in evidence of the serious and reverent state of mind of the party, or with an invocation to a supreme being to witness the words of the party, and to visit him with punishment if they be false." (I really can't remember the last time I quoted Black's Law Dictionary on GreekChat.) No swearing by a sacred object ("my mother's grave") or invoking of a supreme being, no oath as traditionally defined.
Two parallel roads to the same place. Take your pick which road to take.