Let’s see, on the list of trusted sources we have you and the founders at completely opposite ends of the credibility spectrum.
Guess which of the two I’ll be going with?
Study up on “Natural Law” sometime.
The guys who made up rights and wrote them down.
Ah, the old “might makes right” argument.
The stuff revolutions are made of…
That’s the way it always works.
STODR
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So her body her choice was granted by the government and not by some inalienable right?
zantax
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And therefore could not have been found to exist before it was sanctioned by government. Guess we can throw out Roe.
So why do you guys always whine about this group or that being discriminated against? Minorities are by definition minority numbers in a given group or population. If the majority wants to discriminate, it should just be tough potatoes for them huh? Sorry Jews, blacks, Hispanics etc… Might makes right. Right?
Wow, if only people had some inalienable rights and a document that spelled those out. I guess we just let the people with the most guns decide things then…
zantax
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Slaves in our history really had nothing to complain about, they had no right to be free, the government said so.

WuWei:
Republic
If we can keep it. Too many are too stupid to understand what makes our country great. They are dismantling it as fast as they can.
A horrible blot on our nation’s history.
zantax
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Why? No rights were abrogated, they had no intrinsic right to freedom, just ask the people claiming inalienable rights are fiction.
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If you take God out of the equation, you’re right.
zantax
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Who was it who said, paraphrasing, if God didn’t exist, we would be well served to invent one in regard to the topic of inalienable rights? Not coming to me off the top of my head. Anyway, I agree with him.

zantax:
Who was it who said, paraphrasing, if God didn’t exist, we would be well served to invent one in regard to the topic of inalienable rights? Not coming to me off the top of my head. Anyway, I agree with him.
I’m not familiar with that quote, but certainly there were atheists among our founding fathers. Thomas Paine for example. If there is no God then there is no absolute morality. Rights given by government can be taken away by government. I find it interesting that in all the dictatorships in the world, Christianity is discouraged if not outright illegal.
When a government removes everything men will fight and die for, the population becomes easy to control. God is right at the top of things that must be removed.

WuWei:
Voltaire
Brilliant man unfortunately misguided about Christianity. Though he probably didn’t have any good examples of Biblical Christianity in his environment. He could have done much for the cause of Christ.