[MD] The End of Faith - Spirituality

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Steve]
I guess that's the situation we are in until God tells us what our rights are.

[Arlo]
I find it funny that Christians are so quick to claim "freedom of assembly" to
be a right "endowed by God", and yet you think their God would've mentioned all
this in the Old or New Testements. Why didn't Moses descend from Mt. Sinai with
"The 10 Unalienable Rights"?

Jesus did a lot of preaching, and I don't recall a "Life, Liberty and the
Pursuit of Happiness" parable. If he was God's son, and he was teaching us
about God's will, you think all this about habeus corpus and freedom of the
press would've come up at some point.

These "rights", of course, do not derive from "God". They come from us. They
are intellectual patterns that people have determined are best for balancing
the static and dynamic forces of the social level.