A Note to My Brother Expresses the Futility Millions Feel as They Watch Their Constitution Shredded - The Rush Limbaugh Show
I listened to this on the radio today as I chauffeured my kids in preparation for the coming school year. The letter sent to Limbaugh's brother and the conversation it fostered from Rush offers much food for thought.
In spite of any preconceived notions about Limbaugh try reading the article before slamming the source.
I add:
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
I adjust the quote to say a self-policing people governed by morals.
In spite of any preconceived notions about Limbaugh try reading the article before slamming the source.
I add:
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
I adjust the quote to say a self-policing people governed by morals.
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Dear Sir;
"The Constitution is based on Roman and Greek law."
You left out "British Common Law"
What do Roman and Greek law have in common? They are steeped in pagan beliefs and value systems.
The Romans and Greeks were not atheist. Nor were the British.
Don't tell me someone raised in a Christian society is merely a Deist who regards Islam, Wicca and atheism as morally equivalent to Christianity.
Sophistry.
You're just trying to pretend, "The Founding Fathers believed more like me than like you".
which is a nonsense argument.
Never been to a Culvers, but I have been to many a Taco Cabana. And the occasional Luby's.
And if you listen to all the climate change stuff, DC won't be "sacked"... it'll be "soaked"! --grins--
Deists are by no means Christians as they decry many of the basic tenets of Christianity. They had taken a tentative step away from irrationality but were unable to fully embrace reason by eliminating the need for a Creator.
I have a problem with the hierarchy when they give "special dispensation" when St. Pats day is on a Friday during lent, and there are other times when local diocese get same for some local reason. It is either important or not. It is not a requirement that you eat corned beef and cabbage on 3/17 (yum, love it). And waiting one day or advancing such by one day is certainly reasonable.
So, nobody "tells me what to eat," I choose so freely as a part of how I live my life, and what is important to me. It could just as easily be meditating an hour a day, or yoga, or exercise, etc., etc., etc.
Where do "natural rights" come from?
Grow up, intolerant child.
""The results should have been predictable, since a human being hasno natural rights of any nature."
Mr. Dubois had paused. Somebody took the bait. "Sir? How about ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness’?"
"Ah, yes, the ‘unalienable rights.’ Each year someone quotes that magnificent poetry. Life? What ‘right’
to life has a man who is drowning in the Pacific? The ocean will not hearken to his cries. What ‘right’ to
life has a man who must die if he is to save his children? If he chooses to save his own life, does he do so
as a matter of ‘right’? If two men are starving and cannibalism is the only alternative to death, which
man’s right is ‘unalienable’? And is it ‘right’? As to liberty, the heroes who signed that great document
pledged themselves tobuy liberty with their lives. Liberty isnever unalienable; it must be redeemed
regularly with the blood of patriots or italways vanishes. Of all the so-called ‘natural human rights’ that
have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and isnever free of cost.
"The third ‘right’? — the ‘pursuit of happiness’? It is indeed unalienable but it is not a right; it is simply a
universal condition which tyrants cannot take away nor patriots restore. Cast me into a dungeon, burn me
at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can ‘pursue happiness’ as long as my brain lives — but neither
gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it.""
Talk about mysticism... you have no basis for natural "rights". You have the natural "right" to do whatever you want.
Without theology, there are no "rights"... only power and action.
God gave you your life, therefore, like a book, it's yours.
God did not license your life to you, like a video game, whereby you are required to use it according to His license agreement.
The *Founding FATHERS* designed the country so one State or municipality could have laws against blasphemy (or not have them), but the nation could not. So you could vote with your feet, and be thereby free.
And yes, we know you two are shameless.
The above scenario would probably fit into a picture of people sitting around in a futuristic fantasy world with embedded electronic devices. Inflation will get out of control while higher and higher taxes are required to fund ever expanding entitlements. The decline will be exacerbated by poverty, cultural decay, loss of borders and language degeneration.
Magic Dog
That being said, however, the basic values were those that specifically stipulated that rights were an endowment exterior to man and not of his invention. That those rights so closely coincide with the rights proclaimed by many Judeo-Christian faiths (which undoubtably predate Locke or the concept of natural law) is IMHO not a coincidence at all.
Have there been people throughout history who have turned from the principles espoused in the doctrine of Christ to abuse power? Assuredly. But it should be noted that among all the religions known to man, the Christian ethos (but not necessarily any specific sect) is the most providential and closely aligned with natural rights.
Clearly, and thankfully, they avoided (by means of reason) incorporating any archaic or draconian gobbledygook from the King James Bible into their great experiment but it is more than a very safe assumption that they believed in their hearts and minds that what they were doing was right in the eyes of God. And no, I am not a theist but I know how theists work.
Why would you allow ANYONE to tell you what to eat?
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