| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (RebelWithanAK,)
What website?
What discussion?
Why must god saturate all your questions on what rights we have?<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Re: the "god" question: The publisher's description of Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts (2002) states: "Is the Bible true? For the last hundred and fifty years a war has been waged over the historical reliability of the Hebrew scriptures. Recent dramatic discoveries of biblical archaeology have cast serious doubt on the familiar account of ancient Israel and the origins of the Judeo-Christian tradition. .. They ... offer a dramatic new version of the history of ancient Israel, bringing archaeological evidence to bear on the question of when, where and why the Bible was first written.
Re: "God" and Alan Dershowitz's American Declares Independence (2003), in the chapter "Who Is the God of the Declaration," he states: "The drafters of our 18th century Declaration of Independence could not have had more different views than those held by today's Falwells, Robertsons, Dobsons, Keyeses, Liebermans, and Novaks. Indeed, as will become evident from a review of the relevant history, Jefferson intended his Declaration to free us not only from the religious oppression of evangelical clergymen who elevate 'monkish ignorance and superstition' over the 'unbound exercise of reason' and 'the light of science.' He certainly did not accept the insulting notion that there could be no virtue without religion, since he did not care whether anyone, even those closest to him, believed or disbelieved in God, as long as they relied on their own reason, and not the dogma of others, in reaching their decision." |