A comment to a letter written by fool Christopher Hitchens to a gathering of fools called atheists
Hitch [Chistopher Hitchens] lived during a time when atheists actually had total political power over one third of the Earth. It resulted in political repression, torture, and genocide to unprecedented levels.
Our basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness come from God. What God gives man can't take away. What man gives man can take away. And will. As the atheists of the last century proved rather definitively, and disgustingly.
Whenever someone tells you man gives you your basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, don't give him any ground. He just wants to keep his ability to take those rights away from you. There is a reason it was England and America that fought atheistic communism and fascism throughout the 20th century, willingly sacrificing blood and treasure. The two preeminent Christian nations. Christians know where basic human rights come from and therefore know they are worth fighting for. And Christians have a motivation to fight for them. What God gives man cannot take away. And will not, if Christians and Christian nations are around to make the stand.
[If you are interested in shallow thoughts and juvenile emotions coming out of the mouth of an old, dying atheist fool here is Christopher Hitchens' rousing letter to a gathering of atheists in America's heartland. (It's being reported, by the way, that somebody made an attempt at humor at this particular atheist gathering. Or, someone heard somebody else report that perhaps something humorous was attempted by somebody that that person's source had heard about. If any phone video surfaces, or any other type of recording of the event of the attempt at humor, I'll pass it along.)]
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Our basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness come from Thomas Jefferson. The Bible never mentions them.
The Bible tells us we are all created in the image of God. This is what gives us warrant to claim life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as basic human rights, and gives us warrant to claim that respect for all human beings regarding their right to life and liberty is part of that basic human right.
Atheists consider human beings to be an accident of nature, no better, no worse, than an armadillo. Hence the worth of human life in all atheist regimes in the 20th century was the equivalent of a bug on the sidewalk.
So, again, if you get political power over me and tell me you have a right to coerce and kill me (for whatever reason, the revolution, my DNA is not up to snuff, whatever) I can say God gives me my basic right to life, not you, not Thomas Jefferson, no man. God. And when this understanding is operating in my belief system and in the foundational understanding of the community and nation I live in - ideally from the founding, as it was in the United States - it has power to put man and man's claims regarding my right to life *in its place.*
You mentioned Thomas Jefferson...
"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."
*...endowed by their Creator...*
Thomas Jefferson was wise enough to know that if our basic rights come from man they are worthless.
"Whenever someone tells you man gives you your basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, don't give him any ground."
Calvinism denies the concept of human rights. To the Calvinism humanity is nothing but dung (they say so all the time in their sermons and prayers). And to the Calvinist the majority of humanity was created only to be burnt in hell with no say-so, since everything is based on predestination according to the Calvinists.
Calvinists, PLEASE, stop pretending that you invented the concept of natural law and human rights. The concepts in the Declaration of Independence are DEIST concepts. The Calvinist DOES NOT believe that all men were created equal! The Calvinist believes most men were created to be burned in hell for all eternity, but they, the Calvinists, the so-called elect, were created better than everyone else, some sort of angels walking the earth exiled from a heavenly land that is their birthright.
It is not the diabolical Calvinists who provided Jefferson with the concepts that went into the Declaration of Independence. NAY, the doctrine that God created all men equal and endowed them with certain inalienable rights--that comes from the DEISTS (who the Calvinists say will all burn in hell, but who we full Pelagians give a chance and the benefit of the doubt).
John Calvin is the founding father of the United States, as stated by more than one major historian.
Calvin was never even here. Plus he didn't believe in religious liberty, as everyone except the illiterate Calvinists knows. He established a theocratic government in Geneva where they threw people in jail if they even simply said "Calvin is a hypocrite." People's tongues were perforated for other offenses. And of course, there was the burning of Servetus. Anyone who claims that Calvin had anything to do with human rights or religious liberty needs to check into a mental hospital.
You're operating with a lot of Roman Catholic propaganda there, beowulf.
As for Calvin never having been in America, that of course is not the point of the statement that he is America's founding father:
"Jean Jacques Rousseau, a fellow Genevan who was no friend to Christianity, observed: 'Those who consider Calvin only as a theologian fail to recognize the breadth of his genius. The editing of our wise laws, in which he had a large share, does him as much credit as his Institutes. . . . [S]o long as the love of country and liberty is not extinct amongst us, the memory of this great man will be held in reverence.'"
"German historian Leopold von Ranke observed that 'Calvin was virtually the founder of America.' Harvard historian George Bancroft was no less direct with this remark: 'He who will not honor the memory and respect the influence of Calvin knows but little of the origin of American liberty.'
"John Adams, America's second president, agreed with this sentiment and issued this pointed charge: 'Let not Geneva be forgotten or despised. Religious liberty owes it much respect.'"
"Calvin, a convert to Reformation Christianity born in Noyon, France, on July 10, 1509, is best known for his influence on the city of Geneva, the media release explains. "It was there that he modeled many of the principles of liberty later embraced by America's Founders, including anti-statism, the belief in transcendent principles of law as the foundation of an ethical legal system, free market economics, decentralized authority, an educated citizenry as a safeguard against tyranny, and republican representative government which was accountable to the people and a higher law,"
http://www.christiantelegraph.com/issue6138.html
Like its surprising that fellow Genevans would praise him. Didn't fellow Germans praise Hitler?
By this analogy, though, Rousseau would be more of a Jew than a 'fellow German'. von Ranke and Bancroft weren't fellow Genevans.
Comparing people to Hitler, though, is always a good move for the children of this world.
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