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rampartd

(5,045 posts)
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 01:21 PM Sep 2025

vowing "til death do us part " coul be stretched to false witness as well

but either way someone else is depending on me to do as sworn. "sworn deputies' for ex.

or vows of poverty chastity and obed.


and yes, according to good christians in my state, these iron age prohibitions are to be posted on schoolroom walls, but never led by example.

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