"The reason that atheists were not allowed to testify in court for so long was the certainty that witnesses who were unwilling to swear an oath to God had no re

"The reason that atheists were not allowed to testify in court for so long was the certainty that witnesses who were unwilling to swear an oath to God had no reason to be truthful, since they did not fear divine judgment." Just a consideration: What if you believe in a God that has much more important things to do than punishing believers who break an oath in His/Her/Its name? I mean: being of such supreme intelligence, how can he/she/it not rather deal with things that are so far away from our intellectual understanding as it is for, say, a polyp to think about string theory?!