Whence rights come

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a display of the Ten Commandments on public property is permissible if it's viewed as a relic.

Cranky critics claim two recent Supreme Court decisions about displaying the commandments -- one, outdoors in Texas; one, indoors in Kentucky -- send mixed messages about the so-called separation of church and state.

The Texas display was acceptable because of its historical context. The other, however, was not because of its religious context.

That would have been a revelation to the Founding Fathers, who codified His role in America's creation in the Declaration of Independence.

"Nature's God" is in the first paragraph, "Creator" in the second, "Supreme Judge" and "Divine Providence" in the last. Each then signed off on it with his John Hancock.

The world is blind if it sees this as an issue about the separation of church and state. It is not about separation. It is about consolidation.

By evicting God, government consolidates its power to become the de facto Higher Power of its subjects. But if there is no Creator, no right, unalienable or otherwise, can be endowed. Even if a majority of politicians vote yea on "granting" a right and never change their minds. But rights-granting is not in their job description. If it were, rights-revoking also would be. And that would make "rights" privileges.

If no human has endowed rights to the oppressed in Third World dictatorships, does this mean they have none? God says they do even when their fellow man says they don't.

If the state says God does not officially exist, who -- or what -- endows the individual with certain unalienable rights? ......

If the state says God does not officially exist, who -- or what -- endows the individual with certain unalienable rights?

Exactly the point, which is why they are striving to make God "obsolete." It is notable that the secularists/liberals/Bolsheviks - whatever one wants to call them - are working both outside and inside the Church (like Frank Griswold, the misguided ECUSA bishop with his actions to consecrate homosexual priests and bishops, as well as bless same-sex marriages).

We should make no mistake about this: It is a movement, and it's happening all over the world. Every sacred institution is under attack, the Church, the Second Amendment, the Constitution itself, education, marriage, you name it - then think about it. When multi-billionaires like George Soros appear in this country and begin spending big bucks in concert with the UN, the ACLU and people like Michael Moore, and at the same time the SCOTUS goes nuts with its various decisions against God and to usurp property rights (THE basis for freedom), you have to see that their movement is gaining speed, and even our "conservative" politicians don't acknowledge it any more than they recognize the danger of the invasion from Mexico and points south.

The Big Picture is damned scary. It might not have panned out in the Soviet Union, but that isn't stopping these freaks.

"If the state says God does not officially exist, who -- or what -- endows the individual with certain unalienable rights? ......"

Since G*d hasn't been down here in a long time, we shall have to make do on our own. If I may be forgiven for even mentioning his name on FR, the founder of ACLU aptly stated "They have rights who will fight for them".

Unalienable rights exist for all men, but they must be willing to insist on them. The Iraqi people did this in their recent election. Ironically, as the Iraqi's exerted their Unalienable Rights, the Supreme Court egregiously restricted the property rights of Americans

Whether or not one believes G*d gave man rights is not the issue. Is society predicated upon those Unalienable Rights? Is that society's populace willing to fight to keep their Unalienable Rights?

Whether or not one believes G*d gave man rights is not the issue.

I beg to disagree. A recent film "Timechanger" shows what happens when "the law" is divorced from the "law giver." In this instance "rights" without honoring the "rights endower", will eventually lead to no rights, no legitimate rights, just privileges the State temporarily concedes. Once God is left out of the picture, men take His place.

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