>>79885786>Wiki is more reliable than primary sources>The infinitely more retarded of the Hitchens brothers, one of the infamous "four horsemen of new atheism" LARPers, well-known for subversive dishonesty, questionable critical thinking abilities and desperately twisting and contorting reality in favor of reaffirming his materialistic mental illness, would never lie and try to misrepresent Jefferson as being /hisguy/, and is also more reliable than primary sourceslol
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Go the fuck back to R*ddit, come back when you learn to think for yourself without having information filtered and pre-processed for you by cognitively stunted, ideologically motivated grifters
>>79886157>They built a secular governmentWrong again. There is literally nothing stopping the American government from being particularly Christian in character, as it had been for generations. This is yet another misinterpretation of Jefferson's writings, where he spoke of creating a "wall of separation between church and state", specifically meaning the protection *of* the Church *from* the interference of the state, not the other way around.
>Some of them called these rights "God-given natural rights"... which is a self-contradiction in the theistic worldview)Complete gibberish. The fact that God *gives* you a right has literally nothing to do with how that right is maintained - just where it *came* from. That's like saying that if God gave you a loaf of bread, it would somehow be a "contradiction" for someone to come and steal that loaf of bread if you don't do anything to stop them. There is no implication of the relative strength of humans compared with the almighty
>it's clear that this phrasing was chosen to appeal to the sensibilities of the people of the time.Cope, and again easy to disprove with even basic research.
>Rights are a human construct, invented by societies, which are only realised as long as people organise and act to make them so.Objectively false, delusional and Rousseau-pilled. It is, quite literally, *physically impossible* for natural rights to be a human construct, because not only does that imply that the state physically manifests human bodies and even the laws of nature themselves from the aether through acts of legislation (which is obviously false), but it implies that humans do this by *using* the powers granted by their rights before they even have them. This is an inversion of causality, and implies that you do not understand which direction time flows