Reverend Mark Creech, Holy Man, is troubled that a North Carolina mayor swore his oath of office on a copy of the United States Constitution rather than a Bible.
Mayor’s oath of office troubling
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He spent ten years on the Franklin Board of Alderman.
Each time he was sworn into office he placed his left hand on the Bible to take his oath. But this year, which will make his second term as Franklin’s mayor, he decided to do something different. He decided he wouldn’t use the Bible, but instead swear upon a copy of the Constitution.
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Regarding the office of any public official, [Bob] Scott also said, “We do not represent any religion, what we represent are the laws of the land. As far as I am concerned, there is no place in government for religion. I’m a secularist in that respect. I just don’t think there’s a place for any kind of religious doctrine in government because we represent everybody.”
The woeful ignorance of Scott’s view is breathtaking.
Good for the mayor.
Creech is one of the most influential pastors in North Carolina, and a Southern Baptist. They know their influence is in decline, that their days are numbered — and they aren’t going down without a fight. The first-century Christians were a cult; that’s the mindset which informed the authors of the Gospels, and that is where yahoos like Creech are returning as Christianity fails.