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To: 26lemoncharlie
In contrast, the Declaration of Independence contains four references to God: God as the Creator and the source of liberty (“all men are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights”), God the law giver (“law of nature and of nature’s God”), God the ultimate judge (“the Supreme Judge of the World”), and God as the king above all earthly rulers, as the Sovereign (“Divine Providence”).

Not to mention, God who's still involved, in contrast to the leftist canard that the Founders were "deists" who thought that God made the world and then went off on permanent vacation. The fact that the DoI says that they're "appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World" and having "a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence" flies right in the face of that mythology.

70 posted on 06/27/2005 11:06:03 AM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: inquest
The DoI would say that we today have a responsibility to do something in particular that I suspect we don't have the belly to do. I can't even say what that is or I would at least be banned, perhaps be visited by the black helicopters. Perhaps I've already said too much, but:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

82 posted on 06/27/2005 12:51:16 PM PDT by johnb838 (Adios, liberal mofos!)
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