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Getting Conservatism Back on Track

January 29, 2009 - 12:00 am - by Stephen Green
David S
2009-01-30 16:10:52

@39 Marc,

Without the Creator part, is this a valid argument? If I say we are born with those rights, but you say we are not, who’s to say who is right without a Higher Moral Authority?

This is a valid argument, and it doesn’t depend on the “Creator” being of any specific form or function. You can even take out “by our Creator”, and the argument is still adequate to the task. Nobody is arguing that we don’t have those rights.

The founders didn’t want government being involved in the Church, not the other way around. Without God, there is no right or wrong, because your opinion on it is no more valid than mine.

Actually, they wanted a “wall of separation” according to Jefferson. And we have ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ (rather than right and wrong), based on the Constitution and on laws – regardless of your opinion or mine.

Standing for evangelicals will make it impossible for the GOP to ever recover as a national party. Standing for liberty is a much better position, and more defensible.

@40 Delia,

Bush was a big fan of biometric security, so all passports could be machine readable with coding for your vitals.

I’m happy with physical money, but God should have nothing to do with it. Religion has no place in our government.

Peace.

DS

PS – Pray all you like. I’ll put in a word for you at Satanic Bible Study. ;)