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Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach (techcrunch.com)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

God-given Constitutional rights and freedoms

They're trying to co-opt the US Constitution as a religious text.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I don't agree with these religious nuts but, in this case, I don't think they're completely off base regarding "God given rights". The Declaration of Independence (not the Constitution) says:

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.

I wish the Declaration didn't include "by their Creator" but it does.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

I was created by my parents

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, a deist, who also produced the Jefferson Bible, created by literally cutting out all the mystical woo from the New Testament and pasting the remainder onto pages.

I can say with some confidence that nobody considered either the Declaration or Constitution as "religious" at the time.