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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Solon who wrote (18663)11/19/2004 7:48:16 PM
From: Greg or e  Read Replies (2) of 28931
 
"It is a Republic of rights and freedoms."

Certainly; but the basis of those rights and freedoms is the Theistic notion of equality and our common Creator God who grants them.

"It is a right based on the reason and the nature of human beings."

You claim that, but that's not historically accurate. Even the source you cited noted that Deism (a form of Theism) was the basis of the declaration.

"The nature of humans is to wish to be happy and free from suffering and death."

That's completely arbitrary. Humans are also selfish and violent by nature. Your choice of one over the other smells suspiciously like it was simply lifted from the Theistic position.

"<<<The stamp act may have been unpopular but it was perfectly legal>>>"

So then the revolutionaries were simply common criminals, not the noble moral objectors that they pretended to be?
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