Originally posted by sheepslayer247
reply to post by IAMIAM
I am glad that you have found your beliefs. That is important, but we all have the same rights, whether we believe in the same creator or not.
Exactly my friend,
We do not need to have the same concept of a creator. But, it must be acknowledged that there is something greater than us which created us and
endowed us with rights. Without this, where do our rights come from?
The answer is the State.
Without an outside creative force, rights are by endowed by the State as the State sees fit. Haven't we seen this in Atheistic societies already?
China, Russia, Cuba, South America, etc.
Rights are only protected as unalienable if it is acknowledged that they come from a source that is beyond the reach of Man.
Look at what is going on this country. Rights are being stripped daily because WE allow them to be because WE do not acknowledge where they come from
any more. We are being conditioned to think that they come from the state. Speech is being impeded(hate speech), our right to assemble is being
impeded(protests requiring permits), our right to religion is being impeded(I believe it is my religious right to smoke weed), our right to press is
being impeded (wikileaks), our right to bear arms is being impeded(numerous fire arms laws), every right we had protected is now mandated and
controlled by the State.
And we continue to bicker over small religious differences rather than acknowledge the enslavement creeping up on us. We are being divided along
partisan lines, race lines, religious lines, cultural lines, and every other line they can find to divide us. Why is this? To give them the control.
We cannot UNITE and control ourselves long enough to protect each other from our own enslavement.
They playing the game like masters and are eating it up.
If you do not believe in a Creator, do not complain when you do not have the freedom you once thought you had. You have nothing other than your self
to hang those rights on.
As for me, my rights come from my Creator, and I will stand up for them, and yours while I am at it.
With Love,
Your Brother