Consider just for one moment how likely you would be to ask somebody to do something illegal if they have taken an oath to report you to an oversight body.
We need: less dark budgets, less people/positions "above the law", whistle blower protection programs for these heroes, and put people in jail who thought to be above the law (this never happened yet).
You can go to jail for some weed, but executing evil-yet-state-sponsored atrocities is a serious career. Topsy turvy all the way.
[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/how-a-cia-cove...
"So help me god" is not enough. How about, "And should I ever violate this sacred oath, in thought or in deed, may I be forever cursed and damned."
Anyways, the US military already takes those sorts of oaths to refuse and report illegal orders, but they still commit plenty of war crimes.
- Matthew 5: 33–37 (TPT)
Those interpretations don't surprise me though since, like with any other group of people, there are a bunch of evangelical christians that bend the tenants of the group beyond a breaking point to suit their own interest.
Tenets, perhaps.
One example off the top of my head, Jeff Sessions once invoked Romans 13 to defend Trump's immigration policies:
>“I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order,”
If he had actually read that book, he would have reached Romans 13:8.
>Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Or Romans 15:1.
>We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
At some point, you have to recognize that many people don't actually care what their holy books say. I maintain that a curse clause could work with those kinds of people.
The only solution is not having these agencies