[Mariner]

"If you don’t believe in God, then you don’t believe that God is the granter of our rights and therefore, you must believe that men grant them. And if men grant them, what’s to prevent them taking them away at some point."

Non-sequitor.

What about those of us who believe we can define what our rights ought to be, within the context of our own moral judgments...and are willing to kill those who try to take them away if their transgressions are sufficiently egregious?

NOBODY grants me my rights except me.

[eyedigress]

The Founders of this Nation recognized the rights that government had no bearing on. Do you proclaim you deny that, and that government shall never impose their own set of rights to you?

[randita]

What about those of us who believe we can define what our rights ought to be, within the context of our own moral judgments...and are willing to kill those who try to take them away if their transgressions are sufficiently egregious?

Then they are subject to either anarchy or majority rule.