(July 16, 2015 at 1:45 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: What you are basically saying is that force and compulsion are the highest authorities. Most of you seem to incapable of making the distinction between human rights and civil rights. For example, trial by jury is a civil right, the benefit of being a citizen of a specific state. Human rights transcend one's status as a citizen. That is why they are called human rights. So if you think that rights are a human construct then you do not actually believe in human rights. The logical consequence of this is the rationalization to take away another's liberty by force for no reason at all. You are laying the foundation for tyranny.
No, reality lays the foundation for tyranny, because there is no such thing as inalienable rights. Not even your god gives humans the right to life, the right to free speech, or any other "inalienable" right you wish to discuss. All rights are subject to forfeiture given a certain set of circumstances. Your own Bible documents countless examples of the abrogation of rights being approved by your deity, and that means that while you're sitting here and arguing that your deity's existence somehow grants humans inalienable rights, he himself takes them away as he damned well pleases, meaning that they are neither inalienable nor rights.
A Christian criticizing atheists for "laying the foundation for tyranny" is laughably thoughtless on your part ... you, who submit to the tyranny of an imaginary deity daily, who surrenders his rights of his own accord in order to avoid offending the nonexistent.