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Old Jun 15, 2007, 01:42 pm   #9 (permalink) (top)
ZNFYRH
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How is that hypocrisy?
Its humanism.
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It's hypocrisy in the idea that an Atheist believes rights to be inalienable, yet what it was that made those rights inalienable is something they don't believe in.

How can you believe your rights were endowed by the Creator if you don't believe in a Creator?

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That is my personal persepective of the background for your question.
I agree. Involving God makes it seem mandated, somehow.

To answer both of you, one "out" I saw for the Atheist is that they were created by their parents, not God. As such, they are endowed the right to life by their mother when she chose to carry the baby, for example.
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