Yes, it does. -- And that "Natures God entitles us" to do anything is a personal opinion of the men that wrote the Declaration.
-- I have no problem with that opinion as written.
-- I have a problem with YOU, joe, -- and your claim that such opinions authorise our governments to ignore the principle of separation of church & state.
Your outright rejection of the principles this nation was founded upon
Idiotic, unfounded claim, joe. -- I've supported our Constitution on FR for six years. I swore an oath to support & defend it almost 50 years ago, one I've honored.
show that either you are completely ignorant of what these principles were, or you misrepresent yourself as a champion of liberty when in fact you are an enemy of religious freedom, and therefore an enemy of the Republic.
Babble on joe. You're making a fool of yourself with these unfounded accusations.
Sorry Pain, this thread is about the Christian roots of our form of government.
No, this thread is about your fanatical insistence that there is no need for a separation of church & state. The establishment clause says otherwise.
People like you want keep out of government anyone whose view of the divine inspiration of our laws and form of government is consistent with the views of the Founders of the Republic.
Sheer bull, joe. I, nor anyone here have ~ever~ said ANYthing about keeping anyone out of office that is prepared to swear an oath to support the Constitution as the supreme Law of the Land.
Can you swear such an oath Joe? Is our Constitution the "supreme Law of the Land" to you?
We simply have a different definition of the separation of church and state. I agree with the Founders' definition, which is that no one denomination may be established as the national church. I also believe in that OTHER clause in the First amendment that you are so ambivalent to, the one that supposed to mean that people like you can NEVER use the apparatus of the state to forbid public worship.
Is our Constitution the "supreme Law of the Land" to you?
I can recognize the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the land because it presupposes that our rights are inalienable because they come not from the permission of "social contract", but from the hand of God. A man who does not recognize that our rights come from our Creator is not to be trusted.