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To: Junior
"Who has denied the existence of God?"

Previously...Several evo posters on this website.

And, it was an outright denial of existence...not a debate relative to taking Genesis literally.

Some of these posters have even stated that they do not believe that we have God-given rights (as in endowed by our Creator...), which according to Jim Robinson's recent post is a conservative must.

Sometimes God's existence isn't just denied...it is mocked (FSM references, and so forth).

331 posted on 04/27/2006 3:11:11 PM PDT by pby
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To: pby
Some of these posters have even stated that they do not believe that we have God-given rights (as in endowed by our Creator...), which according to Jim Robinson's recent post is a conservative must.

But we were endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. It's just that some of us think the evidence shows that "our creator" was a natural process instead of a supernatural person. So what?

We have inalienable rights because our human nature requires them. Man is the rational animal - the only animals who constantly engage in deep, abstract thinking, and who constantly think about the past & the future as much as we do the present. That's why we have free will - and that's why we require individual rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

These rights are inalienable because we will never change our essential nature as human beings. In exactly the same sense, we have an inalienable right to pursue oxygen.

If it turned out that God didn't exist, would we no longer need oxygen to breathe? In the same sense, if it turned out that God didn't exist, we would still require individual rights to thrive as humans above a bare subsistence level.

Do you begin to see why your (plural) attempt to write evos and/or nonbelievers out of the conservative movement is so wrongheaded? Do you begin to see why we loyal conservatives take offense at your assertions about our character? Do you begin to see why we feel like we've been slandered?

343 posted on 04/27/2006 3:28:42 PM PDT by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: "The Great Influenza" by Barry)
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To: pby
Previously...Several evo posters on this website.

You've made the claim. Back it up wiht examples.

373 posted on 04/27/2006 4:23:09 PM PDT by Junior (Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
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