Posted on 09/26/2025 10:14:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Tim Kaine missed the broad side of the philosophical barn...but his view is surprisingly popular.
When a Democrat senator from Virginia publicly says that our rights do not come from God, he is illustrating a much larger point than this one secular principle. He is revealing the Grand Canyon–sized chasm between the two major forces contending for the soul of America.
Kaine missed the broad side of the philosophical barn. He has apparently lived his entire life in politics without understanding that the bedrock principle of our republic is that the government exists for the purpose of protecting our “self-evident” rights. If the government were to be regarded as the source of those rights, then government could, at its whim, revoke them.
The importance of this principle must never be regarded as minor. It is the essence of representative government and its legitimizing fact. What defines legitimate government is not the “right of kings to rule,” but the God-given right, and responsibility, of the people to rule themselves according to His precepts. When that is no longer regarded as the core value in a society, you get what Britain was in 1776, and to what it has recently returned: oppression.
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Kaine attempted to obfuscate our core national principle by equating the Christian faith with the Islamic tyranny that rules Iran. Islam was and is very far from what the Founders believed. Islam has nothing to do with liberty, with freedom to choose, and especially with freedom of religion. It detests them all, and when in power, it violates them. The America in which Tim Kaine enjoys his personal freedoms would never have been instituted by Muslims. We would have instead become the Barbary Pirates, against whom we waged war (and still do).
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The atheist democRATs think they should be your god in their utopia.
Goblin-faced Tim Kaine had only said the quiet part out loud.
“Shut up and do what I say! You have no rights unless I give them to you! You are all sheep in my pasture!” Seriously, this is really what they think. The government has it’s own Ten Commandments when it’s in the hands of democrats.
Democrats embracing slavery again.
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“...The atheist democRATs think they should be your god in their utopia....”
The domestic communists/terrorists are not atheists in the classic sense.
They have a god.....they’re satanic devil worshippers.
Once one has that revelation, everything they support, do and say becomes more obvious and understandable...
And yes, you’re partially correct: They are forcing, even by the threat of violence & death, their god to be your god. That ain’t gonna happen with a lot of folks. Think it’s ugly now...just wait awhile.
A long time ago, I knew many patriotic Americans who supported and were part of the “former” Democrat Party, albeit in all its leftist/socialist tendencies...
That party no longer exists in any slightest form, a point which, sadly, most here on FR do not recognize...
The Democrat Party ceased to exist in the 1970s, when it was subsumed by the American Communist Party (ACP)...
In the long term, the ACP will permanently dominate American politics unless the disease is fully recognized and called by its correct name, and dealt with harshly...
It’s no longer something that can be ignored, as it was when Joe McCarthy clearly recognized the danger and warned us about it...
Everyone talks about “rights” but nobody ever defines what they are and what they mean by it.
I think it was Socrates who said something like, “first agree on the definition of the terms and the argument can be resolved in short order”
Without that you might as be talking in different languages.
Islam has more in common with leftism than Christianity.
He still misses the boat. His lame “Clarification” that the rights exist in law glosses over the fact that the statutes punish the abrogation of those self-evident rights, it does not grant them.
What they fail to understand is that enough of the framers were so concerned about a strong central government that they refused to ratify the new Constitution until ten amendments were appended to it and incorporated therein.
Given by government?
Those rights protect the People *from* government.
Not only is “Coach” Timmy WRONG, he’s a moron to boot.
Senator, I want to take this opportunity to talk to you about a fundamental, God-given, American right and that is the right to have extreme stupidity. Extremely stupid people have been discriminated against for a long time and you and your democrat colleagues should know, because you are. (In my best Gilda Radner voice).
When a Democrat senator affirms that the government owns your rights comrades.
Fact sheet completed
Kaine puts the tard in LIBTARD
What any good commie would say.
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