I thought this meant non believers in the constitution and rule of law.

JellyToast on January 7, 2013 at 6:48 AM

It does.
God-believers are more likely to believe in the Constitution and rule of law.
IMHO.

people may not be ordinary imaginary

FIFM

lester on January 7, 2013 at 12:32 AM

Ignoring the baiting implication you make: people may not be ordinary (although the idea of a collective opinion, will, or wisdom usually is), but they’re also much more apt to be contradictory. Look at history and essentially every religious “atrocity” occurs at a time when politicians, not theologians lead a religious body.

In this day and age “the people” elect a proven group of incompetents, led by a massive incompetent to positions of government in a divided legislature after an election based on leftist division, alarmism, and deliberately anti-intellectual campaign tactics. And then take on an air of self-righteous whining when their government does not produce results (without questioning whether gridlock might be preferable to “productivity”).

Never mind that “the people” are also responsible for the French Revolution(s), the rise of genocidal communism in China and Russia, and a host of economically disastrous attempts at “fair” government here and in Europe.

But hey, thank… uh… random chance! that we don’t use the remarkably complete and consistent system of ethics that is religion (particularly deistic Christianity), because that’s based on a Being, Whose existence is necessary to make sense of the universe even in secular philosophies like Aristotle’s, because He/She/It/They might be “imaginary”.

People are the highest authority

lester on January 7, 2013 at 12:32 AM

To requote MelonCollie, whose meaning you do not seem to grasp, Hmm…I wonder if this could possibly lead to more loss of freedom.

You mean more people who cannot believe in inalienable rights because they reject God, and therefore leave government as the highest authority?

Hmm…I wonder if this could possibly lead to more loss of freedom.

MelonCollie on January 6, 2013 at 10:43 PM

People are the highest authority, as long as government is elected by the people. The obvious benefit of that is people are not imaginary.

The Continental-Confederation Congress, a legislative body that governed the United States from 1774 to 1789, contained an extraordinary number of deeply religious men.

Compare the results of their actions with those of the current group.