Until I saw this photo, I thought that “I swear on a stack of Bibles” was just an expression…
The Bibles belonged to Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., and so it is understandable that president Barack Obama chose to use them when taking the presidential oath. But still…that just makes it two Bibles rather than one used for a rather ironic purpose, since both those copies of the Bible depict Jesus teaching his followers not to make oaths (Matthew 5:34ff!)!
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