Posted on 10/07/2005 4:59:16 AM PDT by shuckmaster
Oh, and you do? Where's your facts?
Show me where I ever said everything the government does is fine and dandy with me. Read my tagline. By your statement it is obvious you haven't read my other posts. By the way, I thought Free Republic meant a "free exchange of thought". I guess you believe if it only pertains to your thoughts.
Don't be surprised if some day there will be no Constitution in this country and then you would be right. "So much for an 'inalienable right'".
"Don't be surprised if some day there will be no Constitution in this country and then you would be right. "So much for an 'inalienable right'".
What do you care, whatever the Government does is permissible to you. Governments are instituted by God, and how could any government do anything against God then?
"Please tell me what the difference would be between government sanctioned abortion and government sanctioned slavery?"
Nothing. If the Government santions it, how could you not find it permissible?
Then of course there is the statement that brought you all this trouble:
"My position on slavery? I don't consider it is wrong to have slaves."
Not much wiggle-room there.
It wasn't just that one statement. He made several posts before it that implied that was his position. It was just the one post where he got the brass to admit it directly in words that all can understand.
Well, the Nazis assumed power under the German Constitution. So I guess our friend taxes must think everything they did was "permissible," if not exactly meeting entirely with his/her/its approval.
Oh, I'm sure SmartCitizen (Logician, Constitutional Expert, and All-Round Good Fellow), can explain to us how an "inalienable right" to liberty really means "no right to liberty whatever."
Uh-oh. Do you think if we ask real nice England will take us back?
Not sure. Maybe we should apologize to Germany for being so mean a few years back and turn over England to them when we give France back.
What! A bunch of rebellious colonists who think football is played by men in armour? You've got to be joking.
LOL!
One of the most audacious attempts I ever saw involved a whole series of quotes from Darwin's Descent of Man. They were all valid quotes, alright, but from a section where Darwin was considering the arguments for "polygenism" (mankind as multiple species, and possibly with separate or at least ancient origins for the various races) versus "monogenism" (mankind as a single species with relatively recent origins for the races, and/or with the races interpenetrating and grading into each other).
This controversy was inherited from the preceding creationist paradigm and was still a live issue at the time Darwin was writing. What Darwin did in this section was to have an imaginary polygenist and monogenist each give their best arguments on several relevant issues, with Darwin then commenting on and evaluating each in his own voice.
What this creationist did was to go through that whole section and quote only from the arguments and evaluations Darwin attributed to his imaginary monogenist, ignoring and suppressing the fact that within a paragraph or three Darwin had explicitly disagreed with and refuted every one of them. (I.e. on each major consideration Darwin sided with the monogenist view.)
Some posters are going to be awfully disappointed.
Dear Lord, why do you send me opponents incapable of research?
Really?
It seems awfully unfair to them, if you ask me.
Since you're the one who considers slavery to be all right as long as the government sanctions it, I'd lay money it will be people like you who obviate the Constitution eventually.
Either the clearest example of assuming the conclusion in the Bible, or the most amazing justification for power grabbing imaginable. By this line of reasoning, any who manages to achieve power by any means has the mantle of God.
All the history that I was supposed to learn in high school is suddenly coming alive. The scary thing the people who made the past the paradise it was are still voting. I do mean the European feudal past.
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