From the US Declaration of Independence:
My question to you is this: in the absence of a belief in any supreme being, what for you, or for us as skeptics, is the proper formulation for the statements italicized above? How do we argue these truths today?
Although I have placed the thread in US Politics, and discussion is likely to be closely tied at times to the DoI, my question is for everyone, as these same ideals or statements are formulated similarly or implied in most democracies. Or not? Perhaps that is another question worth exploring.
I of course have my own opinion, which I will state in my replies to others. But my purpose is for many to state their own formulations as well, which I would enjoy hearing.
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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. |
Although I have placed the thread in US Politics, and discussion is likely to be closely tied at times to the DoI, my question is for everyone, as these same ideals or statements are formulated similarly or implied in most democracies. Or not? Perhaps that is another question worth exploring.
I of course have my own opinion, which I will state in my replies to others. But my purpose is for many to state their own formulations as well, which I would enjoy hearing.
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