>>>Tradition.
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>>Ah, but that was what got me started on this. Why is a person who swears on a holy book of his religion more trusted in this tradition, that one who doesn't have such an allegiance to any particular confession?
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>You'll have to ask someone who thinks like that.
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>It seems to be entirely unrelated from the question I asked

Your immunity to thread drift seems to have weakened meanwhile. Welcome back and join our exercise of free drift.

>which is:
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>If swearing on the Koran is "un-Muslim", then is swearing on the Bible supposed to be less "un-Muslim"?
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>It was actually a rhetorical question.

Of course, so I wasn't trying to answer it. But I think my question above is a tad more interesting... but we'll have to wait for someone who thinks like that.