Is God Really Necessary?

Now that battle lines are being drawn between so called social and economic conservatives, perhaps it’s time to question importance of God relative to both camps.

Again I ask you to PAY ATTENTION and consider this question whether you are a believing Christian, Jew, Muslim, any of the myriad of God-based religions, agnostic or atheist. I, personally would not be considered particularly religious. I have flirted with atheism and agnosticism and have moved somewhat beyond those perspectives. I would still say that my concept of God is likely quite different from that of most Americans. What we are talking about here is whether God is necessary from a political point of view.

If you think we can get along without God politically and survive with the same rights and freedoms that are currently guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, you are sadly mistaken. Read the Declaration of Independence, and read it critically! Your or anyone else’s BELIEF in God is irrelevant. Without God being acknowledged, the source of our rights and what is a right becomes clouded. God is our strongest argument! If our rights do not come from God, what is their source? When God disappears from the argument, it becomes a clash between the left’s viewpoint that “rights” are granted by government and a counter premise that they are conferred by “natural law.” While I personally think that the natural law argument is strong philosophically, it remains primarily in the realm of logic and thus is a more difficult point to maintain relative to a broad audience.

So this “fight on the right” disagreement should be abandoned no matter what your religious persuasion. I will vote for God every time. For those of us that truly believe in the best that this country has to offer, God is our best ally. From a political perspective, if God didn’t exist, we would have to invent Him. For both social and economic freedom, we need God more than ever. That being the case, I feel it is only fitting that God have the last word.


Quote of the Day:

“God is dead.” Friedrich Nietzche – 1882

“Nietzche is dead.” God – 1900

(Sorry I don’t know the original source of this quote combination.)


Socrates’ corner:

The Oracle at Delphi once pronounced Socrates as the wisest of men. While Socrates did not always know the right answers, he inevitably knew the right questions. The “Socratic method” is simply a method of getting to the truth or challenging a position by eliciting answers to questions about their positions.

Here are some suggested questions on this subject.

What is a right?

What is the source of what we call “rights?”

Based on the source, who can take rights away?

If rights can be taken away by man or groups of men, can they really be called rights?