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    1. Sarah Haider  🚀‏ @SarahTheHaider Feb 6

      Sarah Haider  🚀 Retweeted Dave Rubin

      On what grounds can anyone say “god” grants us rights? The entity that may be said to grant rights is the one that may protect them or take them away. I don’t see any god doing that. For better or worse, in our world, the closest thing to a “rights-granting”entity is the state.https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1357743742564749312 …

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      Dave RubinVerified account @RubinReport
      Our Founders understood this which is why the Constitution didn’t grant us rights, it protected them. Rights are god given, not man given. Logic needs something eternal beneath it as foundation. This is a point @yhazony @benshapiro @DennisPrager @jordanbpeterson have made often.
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    2. Colin Wright‏ @SwipeWright Feb 6
      Replying to @SarahTheHaider

      That rights are "God-given" is just a lie people tell themselves so it sounds more concrete, permanent, and profound. Certain rights may align with human nature and thus feel very central to our being and may be somewhat universally desired. But we don't need to invoke God.

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    3. Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo Feb 6
      Replying to @SwipeWright @SarahTheHaider

      The point is that natural ("God-given") rights are higher principles than the State, and the State must respect them. Otherwise, the State can determine moral law/rights with no recourse. This is what happened in 20th-century totalitarian regimes ("nothing outside the State").

      8 replies 13 retweets 213 likes
    4. Sarah Haider  🚀‏ @SarahTheHaider Feb 6
      Replying to @realchrisrufo @SwipeWright

      But Chris, the State can *still* do this. The UN was supposed to be the greater political body to put weight behind the ideal, to very limited success. Besides, the “god-given” idea existed before the 20th c, but did nothing to stop the totalitarian regimes.

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      Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo Feb 6
      Replying to @SarahTheHaider @SwipeWright

      History is a good guide on this point. The 18th-century Declaration, with its "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," created the most free, equal, and prosperous society of all time. The 20th-century atheistic/"nothing outside the state" regimes were all human catastrophes.

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        2. Sarah Haider  🚀‏ @SarahTheHaider Feb 6
          Replying to @realchrisrufo @SwipeWright

          Yes, but again, to the main point above: those are all declarations made by political bodies, with the force of the state behind them. Without this force, these “rights” are merely deeply-held values.

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        3. Sarah Haider  🚀‏ @SarahTheHaider Feb 6
          Replying to @SarahTheHaider @realchrisrufo @SwipeWright

          Sarah Haider  🚀 Retweeted

          To your point here: I disagree. The UN declaration fails because it has no enforcement mechanism. It is wishful thinking, at best. A “right” that cannot be guaranteed is not a right at all, it is a value. https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1358232736587079688 …

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        1. Brian Gallagher‏ @bsgallagher Feb 6
          Replying to @realchrisrufo @SarahTheHaider @SwipeWright

          Isn’t the US Constitution basically an atheistic document? Probably played a bigger role in shaping the success of the US compared to the Declaration, too.

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