Craig, I come at this not so much from the standpoint of evolutionist survival of fittest theory but the difference between English Common Law vs Jeffersonian/Napoleanic Law. In one, we accede rights to the state, in the other, the state gives you the rights.

I happen to subscribe to the former.

At no point have I said the rights we choose to protect and/or exercise can't or shouldn't be based on Biblical concepts, because I happen to believe that there is remarkable commonality between the Biblical concepts of right and wrong etc and what rights/freedoms we need to give up in order to live together in a society successfully.

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The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia