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Neil Kellen's avatar

The Bill of Rights recognized our God given freedoms and placed limits on the government on infringing upon them. Governments cannot grant natural rights, they can only infringe upon them.

There is a difference between natural rights and civil rights. Natural rights, as recognized in the Bill of Rights, are ours by birthright. Civil rights, on the other hand, exist because of the formation of societies and the agreement of people in them to allow government to manage those civil rights; voting is an example.

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WP William's avatar

Natural rights are universal and theistic, orderly, benevolent and proper whereas a Darwinian Atheistic view of "naturalistic" rights is amoral, brutal and subjective, exploitative, and enslaving.

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Neil Kellen's avatar

That's a differentiation I have never come across before.

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