considers himself a patriot.So if someone doesn't believe that the Nation is subordinate to a Deity, they're a communist? Sheesh.For what country? Cuba? North Korea?
The fact is, he's right, and this is a classic example of why the declaration of subordination to God (a concept appearing nowhere in the Constitution) doesn't belong in a patriotic affirmation.
-Eric
In essence, if you don't believe that the Nation (not the magazine) is subordinate to something, yes, you are a communist.
The Declaration talks a lot about rights granted by the Creator. The truth is, our Republic rests on the bedrock of the idea that our rights are granted by God, not the State. If they are granted by the State, the State can take them away or modify them. Europe does not subordinate the Nation to God -- or anything else.
God need not exist, but God is an important legal concept and plays a big role in the founding and sustaining of the country. Call it "Natural Law" if you are that fundamentalist and extremist in your atheism.