Our rights are derived from our Creator. This puts them out of the reach of despots who would seek to curb them. Life. Speech. The right to bear arms.
The left doesn’t seem to hold those rights as sacrosanct but instead of attacking them head on, they undermine them by minting new “rights.”
The right to abortion? Does God give us the right to destroy other human beings?
The right to marry people of the same sex. Can a Christian believe that God believes that is a right?
The right to force you to acknowledge somebody’s supposed gender switch?
Do these rights come from God?
Human rights are established to free us. They are for the prisoners, not for the warden.
These newly minted “rights” from the left limit freedom. Their “women’s rights” destroys the unborn. Their redefinition of marriage hollows out the meaning of marriage and harms the family. Their demand that you say something you know is not true by accepting their gender whim specifically violates your God given freedom of speech. It would force you to lie.
Human rights are from our benevolent Creator. These new rights come from self-serving politicians. This is the lie from the serpent. “You shall be like gods.” And by creating “rights” these people see themselves as gods among men. But these new “rights” are not from God. They are from those seeking to undermine our true connection with the divine.
These can not be accommodated. They must be rejected as lies seeking to imprison us, not free us.
October 3, 2024 at 9:10 am
Not all our rights are derived from our Creator, at least directly and as a part of our very nature. For example, “In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.” A right of purely divine origin would not be tied to the quantity of $20, the meaning and value of which have changed dramatically in the last two centuries.
Rights that are shared by all humans are very general. For practical reasons, though, the rights recognized by any country for its citizens have to be much more precise, which necessitates arbitrary decisions. Everyone has a right to a fair trial. Whether that is decided by one or more judges or by a jury of whatever size has to be determined, but there is more than one way to organize a trial so that it is fair.
The right to keep and bear arms is likewise not a universal human right. There is more than one way to maintain a well-regulated militia, which is the stated purpose for the 2nd Amendment. That doesn’t mean that the 2nd Amendment cannot be defended, but it is a product of American history and culture, not something universal. The right to keep and bear arms is an attempt to secure a well-regulated militia, the purpose of which is to secure the more fundamental human right to be safe and to be left alone. The connection to the human right is indirect and, given the long history of militias (and the ambiguity of what “well-regulated” means), perhaps excessively optimistic. But such optimism is necessary even now, to say nothing of the need for it at the founding of a new country.
October 3, 2024 at 1:44 pm
“”A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
#1. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State ,(COMMA!!)
#2. the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Having a well regulated Militia does not nullify the right of the people to keep and bear arms. The Supreme court continues to rule time after time for the right of people to bear arms. At one point they even said that controlling the amount of ammo if in any way restricts people from being able to use their arms is not constitutional.
Did God say that we have a right to bear arms? No, but we have the God given right to defend ourselves and we also have a right, duty and responsibility to defend and protect those in our care or the defenseless.
Does anyone have the right to tell you that you CAN’T defend yourself against a hostile? No. Does anyone have the right to tell you HOW you should defend your person and property against someone determine to harm you or steal from you? No. If someone comes after us with with a gun, do we defend ourselves with a baseball bat if you also have access to a gun? No, that would be insane.
Our right to defend ourselves extends only to the point where we neutralize the threat so they are no longer a threat. As the Church teaches, we do have the right to defend ourselves but only using as much force as necessary to stop the hostile, and unfortunately sometimes that ends up in death.
No, God did not directly give us the right to bear arms(gun, etc…). He didn’t have to. He gave us the right to defend ourselves, especially those in our care. If it means using a gun then so be it.
October 3, 2024 at 2:08 pm
There is a difference between “,” and “ΒΆ”.
But my point is that the 2nd Amendment is an American civil right, not a human right. Frankly, it’s more akin to the “right” (really a privilege) to drive a car than it is to the right to life, insofar as there are about as many limitations on the right to bear arms as on the privilege to drive.
Civil rights are important, but they are less important than human rights.
October 3, 2024 at 2:26 pm
So you’re okay with the government telling you when and how and with what to defend yourself. That’s fine but I don’t. The government didn’t have to tell people they had to arm and defend themselves. The populace already had guns even before the Bill of Rights and were using them to defend themselves. The 2nd amendment didn’t give us that right. We already had it, but It was telling the government to keep its hands off our God given right to defend ourselves even with arms.
October 3, 2024 at 2:30 pm
It is NOTHING like driving a car. Owning a weapon of any kind to equalize a balance against a threat is NOT a privilege but a God given right.