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To: exmarine
. It says rights come from God.

Well, sure it does, but that doesn't make it axiomatically true. We don't legislate for God, even when it appears that we want to. Rights demonstratably come from guns, and the Second Amendment backs that up. If rights came from God, why would God need backup deputies?

6,125 posted on 01/28/2003 1:49:58 PM PST by donh
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To: donh
Well, sure it does, but that doesn't make it axiomatically true.

I am not interested in what is axiomatic, just what is true. Axiomatic is not synomymous with "universal" or "absolute." Axioms occur when people cannot find any other reason why something is true; so they just say, it must be true "by definition."

We don't legislate for God, even when it appears that we want to. Rights demonstratably come from guns, and the Second Amendment backs that up. If rights came from God, why would God need backup deputies?

It is not a matter of legislating for God, it is a matter of bringing human law into harmony with the universal moral absolutes of God. When people do that, good things happen. Notice the United States flourished and thrived under that principle...until now that is, when god-hating darwinian gods in black robes play god and decide what is right and wrong and who lives and dies (e.g. Roe v. Wade). Rights come from guns? - you mean "might makes right." That is a pitiful philosophy becuase it makes no distinction at all between power and goodness. If that is true, then Hitler was right. Was Hitler right donh?

If rights came from God, why would God need backup deputies?

He doesn't. Men take it upon themselves to defy God - they certainly are not his deputies. God-fearing men will obey God for the most part. God-defying men will do whatever they want, and they have that freedom, but they will answer for their actions after this life.

6,130 posted on 01/28/2003 2:15:20 PM PST by exmarine
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