As G.K. Chesterton observed,

“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”

By the same token, when moonbats reject God, they live in a world not where there is no god but where anything can be god — even a river.

From the remnants of Great Britain:

Jurors are either required to make a promise to tell the truth or to swear on a holy book when they attend court.

Instead the lawyer and activist [Paul Powlesland] produced a vial of water taken from the River Roding, at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London.

Powlesland proclaimed that “the river was effectively my god, and that I hold the river to be sacred.”

On this basis, the judge allowed the oath alongside an affirmation.

The original point of allowing people to swear on something other than the Bible may have been to marginalize Christianity, but it is the legal system that gets delegitimized.

On a tip from Steve T.