Posted on 05/31/2012 4:03:51 PM PDT by wagglebee
Yes, I can see where an atheist is completely at odds with the concept of God-given rights.
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.
-- John AdamsOur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-- John Adams
You see, once the atheist rejects the fundamental belief that our rights come from God, he is left with only two choices:
1. That our rights come from government, which means that the government can also take them away. This eliminates freedom.
or
2. That each person creates their own rights and can decide at any moment that his rights supersede the rights of everyone else. This creates anarchy.
It is mine, and mine alone.
If your life is yours alone, WHO gave it to you? Did you somehow create yourself?
The author of this piece is a weak minded fraud worthy only of ridicule by free human beings.
Given the choice between a Christian who believes in the fundamental right to life and the atheist belief that each person decides their own rights, I will always choose the former.
Libertarian beliefs NEVER create freedom, they can only end in tyranny or anarchy.
As opposed to a vast amount of bloviating self congratulatory simplistic DE-moralizing godless anarchic Libertarian rhetoric, right?
I do and no one has any right to stop me!
Certainly most people have the ABILITY to commit suicide, but that doesn't make it a right any more than the ability to commit murder makes it a right.
As for assisted suicide, you may have the ABILITY to help another person commit suicide, but this isn't a right either and you certainly don't have any right to have another person assist you in committing suicide.
And then we have euthanasia. What possibly makes you believe that you have the right to take another person's life based on their state of health? This is the thinking that ALWAYS leads to death panels.
Well put.
The ability to make distinctions is one of the marks of the sane person.
I’m always struck by the Libertarian inability to make the crucial distinction between rights and power.
This is quite possibly the most absurd thing I've ever read on FR.
NOBODY has EVER suggested that dying in combat or defending others is sinful.
At its core, libertarianism to rooted in selfishness and the total rejection of authority, this is why libertarianism will ALWAYS result in anarchy if it is allowed. Libertarians have convinced themselves that a desire is the same thing as a right.
“Libertarian beliefs NEVER create freedom, they can only end in tyranny or anarchy. “
That is quite possibly THE BEST summary of libertarianism I have ever read! Thanks!
The integral nature of God’s ownership of each of our bodies, is why—though admittedly NOT a life-&-death issue—tattoos should be considered wrong.
The definition of graffiti is writing or art done on SOMEONE ELSE’S property. Usually, but not always, graffiti is scribed on public property—but essential to its definition—is that the “tagger” didn’t have permission to do it. This is why it is primarily the habit of adolescents—as it is a form of rebellion—even theft, easily gotten away with.
When graffiti is allowed in designated areas (say, on a construction fence, or by a (real) artist on the wall of a city building—or as the case here in Charlotte recently, on a public overpass/bridge—really, it ceases to be graffiti, and becomes legitimate public art. When done that way, with approval (since it pleases certain authorities) it loses a lot of its edge...and, in actuality ceases to BE graffiti.
Typically too, graffiti is of passing artistic style...in the same way that album-cover art is (or used to be, yes I am dating myself). Also, graffiti (like much of contemporary art) is highly subjective and personal—with passing emotional significance.
In all these ways, tattoos are as well:
1) On someone else’s property (since our body is God’s)
2) Without the permission of the owner
3) Of passing artistic style...
4) Highly subjective and personal, with passing emotional significance.
The first two points alone, for a Christian, should be enough to dissuade him or her from tattoos.
“...do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” (St. Paul in I Corinthians 6:19, 20)
I’m sorry you feel that way about the founding paragraph of the United States of America.
Because without it, there is no America. Not for long anyhow.
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Well said.
Christians and Jews should bear in mind that we entered this world naked and alone and we will leave it the same way.
While we are here we are stewards. Stewards only. Never owners. Ownership is an illusion:
For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. - Matthew 25:14-30
Truth is timeless, and it remains true no matter who uses, or misuses, it.
Even Satan himself spoke the scriptures to Jesus when he tempted Him. Out of context, of course.
The Lord’s overwhelmingly effective response, of course, was eternal truth, in context.
To which there was no possible response, so Satan fled, as he always must in the face of properly deployed truth.
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