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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s dangerous for people to believe that other people grant rights. In the United States rights were are granted by God and no person has the moral standing to remove them. [/quote]

Wanna know how I know you're a troll pretending to be someone very stupid?

[b]Because there is no mention of a god in the constitution and every grammar school kid is taught that.[/b]

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You are correct.  But God is clearly referenced in the Declaration of Independence as are the inalienable rights granted to everyone.  The constitution is the new governmental framework that protects those inalienable rights.  [/quote]

Correct. The founders were not particularly religious and many were skeptical of religion but even they saw virtue in originating the inalienable rights in a higher being rather than arbitrary rights agreed to by man, which in turn implies they can be bartered away. The US in the 18th century was also unquestionably a Christian world, the population, even the atheists, were intimately knowledgeable of the tenets and teaching of Christianity and the philosophy of the enlightenment that underpinned the creation of the United States was in turn heavily underpinned by Judeo-Christian thought.

Having said that, I do not agree there is a place for the 10 Commandments in Louisiana schools. George Washington wisely said it is not the government's job to preach morality, keep it to the private sphere. The same principle should apply to rainbow flags, which have clearly taken on quasi-religious and ideological overtures these days. [/quote]

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