Replies

Interesting point about God. Some leftists sneer at the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, saying it's just a holdover of "McCarthyism." If so, then the Founding Fathers were McCarthyists also! Our rights come from God - if they don't, if they come from government, then they can be taken away by government. Communist countries believed this; countries such as the US do not.

At least not yet. But I hope it never changes.

Actually that's a very interesting point: our rights come from God, else where do they come from? As an agnostic (who'd very much like to believe there's a God) I'm often dragged into conversations about right and wrong. My chief point is that, if there is no God, then there's no such thing as right and wrong. There has to be a metaphysical basis for morality or it wouldn't exist: it would simply be a thing that people do, for reasons of their own, which is enforced by people, and has absolutely no other significance than that. This is a frightening concept, at least to me.