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Oaths, you will recall, have three components: 1) declaration ('I will do impartial justice'), 2) a specification of a higher power ('so help me God'), and 3) a curse called down on the swearers, should they be false... 5/11
The curse component in Christian oath-taking is often left out because it is - my awkward phrasing - theologically obvious: that God would damn an oath-breaker. But that doesn't mean it vanishes from the oath formula, merely that it is left unsaid... 6/11
...the idea is important enough that it is one of the Ten Commandments (forswearing an oath is a core part of 'taking the name Lord's name in vain'). Theologically, a forsworn oath is a form of blasphemy. Note also on the seriousness of oaths Matt. 5:33-37. 7/11
So for the 86 Christians and 8 Jews in the US Senate, the formality of that impeachment oath carries very real religious import - presumably if you believe in that particular God, you also believe he meant business when he said not to forswear oaths. 8/11
(I can't speak for the five senators listed as unaffiliated, or for the Buddhist conceptions of oaths, about which I am insufficiently informed - sorry @maziehirono ). 9/11
Summing up: quite apart from the issue of legal perjury, any religious US Senator ought to be quite concerned that forswearing the impeachment oath carries quite severe - probably eternal - divine judgment. They are *literally* calling on God to damn them if they...10/11
...break their oath. One would think that the prospect of eternal damnation would be stronger than partisanship. Or...we may be about to find out that a number of Senators believe in their party more than in God. Again, oath post is here: https://acoup.blog/2019/06/28/collections-oaths-how-do-they-work/ … end/11
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