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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (25963)	9/4/2001 11:39:28 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Only in it's negative form So? BTW, I doubt that that is true. And you can get to the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights by rational consideration of the nature of man and his history. The men at the Constitutional Convention were educated, intelligent men. They were aware of abuses commited by governments and wished to avoid the worst of them. The fact that Locke may have gotten there from a religious angle doesn't mean it's the only path. You think they were perfect? Why was slavery provided for in that Constitution? Except they are based on John Locke's proof of the Existence of God. That's your claim. My history books say many ideas and philosophers influenced them. If you wish to wear blinders, do so. I won't. So all the Bill of Rights are in there? Pull them out and show them to me. And why should I care how or why good ideas came about? Why can't I just use them? I frankly don't care if they are based on the Quran or the Tibetan Book of the Dead. There are good ideas in the Bill of Rights and I'm glad we've got it. And that link you provided must have about a quadrillion bytes behind it. I've been on a dial-up for the last week and I haven't been able to get it downloaded. If you wish to play religious fanatic, go post to Chris Land; he likes it.