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To: GonzoII

I have always wondered what the secular foundation of human rights is. Modern secular liberalism is essentially Christianity with the foundation removed. It might look solid and dominant from a distance, but any significant tremor...


3 posted on 12/12/2008 6:43:34 AM PST by oscars300
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To: oscars300

The secular foundation is that man has “reasoned” that humans have certain inalienable rights.

The problem with this is that man can just as easily “reason” that you DON’T have those rights anymore.

The very foundation of conservatism, that you have inalienable rights, is grounded in the concept of an objective, supernatural, extra-material, unchanging Creator.


6 posted on 12/12/2008 6:57:02 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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