Culture of "rights" = culture of wrongs (Representatives, activist, healthcare)
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Rights do not come from government; rather, they are granted by our Creator and affirmed/codified by our US Constituton. To acknowledge such does not make the USA a theocracy.
Seriously? Even I, as an Australian know that you don't have a clue about your own Constitution or Bill of Rights.
Which particular "God" are you referring to? Yours?
When God is capitalized it refers to the one true God - so that would be everybody's God.
When one says "god" - this is the inanimate object or idea that replaces God in your life. We all worship something. For some it is the bottle, others, a pill, and many worship secular humanism - and call themselves atheists because they think they don't need to bother with God. All of these are doomed to failure.
Anyways - in the United States we have religious freedom and one may worship their god of choice.
My scenario works on the level of a moral consensus, wherever that might be. The unit could be as small as your local school board. Under the present arrangement, moral consensus has no authority at any level because our political "culture of rights" imposes a faux neutrality.
Here's the problem: a government cannot be neutral towards relevant truths - religious based morality, for instance - without being prejudiced against those truths.
Pretending to be neutral towards the proverbial "elephant in the living room" ends in absurdity. When it comes to politics, religious and moral truth is the "elephant in the living room".
All laws of every kind are based on someone's idea of morality. Government can't be neutral about that: it has to choose. Even when it pretends not to choose, it chooses.
When God is capitalized it refers to the one true God - so that would be everybody's God.
When one says "god" - this is the inanimate object or idea that replaces God in your life. We all worship something. For some it is the bottle, others, a pill, and many worship secular humanism - and call themselves atheists because they think they don't need to bother with God. All of these are doomed to failure.
Anyways - in the United States we have religious freedom and one may worship their god of choice.
What 'one true God' is that? People believe in many different Gods or no Gods at all. It's rather arrogant to think that your particuar 'God' is the 'one true God'.
Can I assume you belong to one of the 37,000 Christian sects who can't seem to agree about what their 'god' wants? The ones who follow numerous different versions of what was orginally the Hebrew's god YaHWeH? Do you know the history of YaHWeH?
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