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On Inauguration Day, the President did not take his oath of office with his hand on the Bible.

His wife stood next to him holding it. I was about 15 feet away and saw it.

But he did not put his hand on the Bible.

And that should have been maybe a clue that we need to pause and think about, what is this?

Why wouldn't you put your hand on the Bible?

If you don't believe in the Bible, there's no cost to you to putting your hand on it,

just kind of following the protocol, going along with the tradition.

All presidents do it. Why aren't you doing it?

And you're not doing it intentionally.

You're choosing not to put your hand on the Bible when you take that oath.

That suggests not that you don't believe it's real,

because if you didn't believe it was real, why would you care?

That suggests you know it is real, and you're rejecting it.

You know what you're doing, and you're doing it anyway.

But nobody asked questions about that either.

It seemed kind of inappropriate, given the celebration that in progress,

to ask, why wouldn't you put your hand on the Bible when you take the oath of office to lead our nation?

But pretty much nobody did.

I didn't. I'll admit that.

I saw it and didn't say one word.

It bothered me ever since.

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