On 12/1/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Rob Smith wrote:
On 12/1/06, Kurt Maxwell Weber kmw@armory.com wrote:
Free speech is my birthright as a human being--I do not need to be
"allowed"
to speak freely; I am entitled to do so by the mere fact of my
existence!
The wording is, "All men are endowed by thier Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these....[enumerated]."
Question is, how can atheists who deny thier Creator gave them rights, claim to have free speech, etc.
It's easy if one substitutes an atheist definition of creator. :-)
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By the way: the wording is from the Declaration of Independence, not the US Constitution, so it really isn't relevant to the discussion. Additionally, that specific wording was chosen for its "propaganda" value -- it added an authoritative air to a document that would otherwise have been seen by the British as a list of whiney complaints, and that would not have received the support of much of the general populace.