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To: DiogenesLamp; EternalVigilance
But the law of God as they wrote in the Declaration does not place conditions on the right to leave.

I think it's very safe to say that no one who signed the Declaration of Independence believed that everyone has a God-given unconditional right to replace existing governments. Obviously, you have a right to leave, but the secessionists weren't leaving. Instead, they were trying to replace the existing government in the Southern states. They were trying to strip their neighbors of the rights they possessed as citizens of the United States. They were trying to strip their neighbors of their United States citizenship. And, for what? Slavery? Isn't that what they said? And, if God afforded these folks a divine right to a government that protected their interest in owning slaves, why would they have stooped to relying upon a twisted interpretation of a phrase in the Declaration of Independence?

It seems that, somehow, you have become so unhappy with life in America and feel so alienated from our institutions that you can convince yourself of anything that you think might assist you in escaping your misery. I suggest again that you consider the possibility that your profound dissatisfaction with your circumstances has nothing to do with government or politics. Very few Americans feel any obligation to create a government designed to cater to your personal whims. Government cannot make you feel happy. Look elsewhere for happiness. It's out there.

250 posted on 07/22/2015 7:28:06 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Tau Food
I think it's very safe to say that no one who signed the Declaration of Independence believed that everyone has a God-given unconditional right to replace existing governments

I am not interested in trying to decipher your rationalized gobbledygook.

I'm getting to the point where I find very few of you even worth the trouble to read. You won't get the sequence of events right. You won't get the philosophical underpinnings right. You won't comprehend the Zeitgeist of the periods in discussion. You simply have a position and you insist on espousing it despite contradictory information.

By the way, you ought to frame your sentence up above. That one is a real keeper. I can think of no better advertisement to others regarding your inability to comprehend the matter, then that sentence of yours. I stopped reading right there. It would be a favor to everyone else to let them stop reading right there too.

Do everyone a favor. Start your messages with that sentence.

251 posted on 07/22/2015 7:42:45 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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