where do you think our rights come from? i do not think they come from government.
Serious question?
Our "rights" don't come from anyone. We take them, or someone else takes them from us.
Humans are very simple animals. Your monkey brain acts to convince my monkey brain that we compromise. Failing to do that, one of our monkey brains exerts violence on the other to force their "rights" on the other.
If you legitimately believe a magical, make-believe, invisible man in the sky gives you your rights.. well, you can't save everyone.
Americas founders understood that in the absence of God, government would mistakenly believe it is the source of our rights, with the power to arbitrarily take them away. By establishing God as the source of our rights, it moved government into a perminant subservant role. I'm not saying you need to need to believe, I'm saying that is the history of our country that gave us relative freedom, unsurpassed prosperity and a government we managed to keep in check for two centuries.
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