On Mon, March 26, 2007 5:42 pm, kelsey hudson wrote: > Christian Seberino wrote: >> On Mon, March 26, 2007 1:33 pm, kelsey hudson wrote: >>> "...God-given rights..." did not directly mean rights given to all >>> people by an absolute deity creator-persona; instead, it meant "rights >>> granted upon all people by virtue of being people." >> >> And you know this how? > > Because, the text reads: > > "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created > equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable > Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." > > And we know, Jefferson being a Deist, that his Creator had no effect on > peoples' lives past creating the universe. Thus, by direct inference, > its proper meaning is, "rights granted upon all people by virtue of > being people," quod erat demonstratum.
If I understand you correctly, you are equating deism with atheism? Hence it must mean so and so....? Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
