Rights aren't a gift. That's why they're called rights. We automatically have them. They cannot be a gift because that would mean that they are privileges that can be taken away just as quickly as they can be given.
Think about this: If they are going to church but are completely godless they are actually lazy. To be genuinely godfull it takes some work, not just attending on Sunday and church social gathering. These people become uninformed followers. If you don't go to a church you tend not to have uninformed followers to vote with you.
Yup, I don't believe it! I only think there is an 80% chance that human presence is causing it! Now, if I came to the conclusion that there was an 80% chance that if I drove my car today I be seriously injured I'd take some action.
Rights are inherant in every being. God created us as such being who automatically have rights. "God given rights" just means God is ultimately responsible for our having rights today.
Is that why women's rights are different the men's rights?
presumably you are unaware, heathen christians, esp evangelicals advocate a WORLDWIDE theocracy ruled from Yerushaláyim.
As i recall a big part of saul/paul's manmade dogma was the fallacious original sin misrepresentation that due to man's improper consumption of the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge all of his descendants forever are tainted with original sin... so much for man being made an intelligent being. Man is not intelligent, it is primitive, savage and blood thirsty animal. Intelligence is a byproduct from civilized society; if only because uncivilized societies tend to exterminate each other. And this god you mention (from the Jewish campfire stories contained in Genesis), is that the Jewish G of Abraham, because there is no god in christianity, it basically usurps Judaism; even replacing their TaNaKh with their heathen fabricated new testament (nt). (not a single book in the nt comes from a prophet, many of them are in fact anonymous, or bogus epistles from saul who btw was NEITHER a prophet from G, nor a disciple of Christ.) As far as "an athiest president" are you going to elect a competent man to run the executive branch of US government, or are you electing a guy to dress up in a jewel encrusted dress that preaches from a pulpit or a dais. You may not recall the early 1960s uproar from the gop about electing a catholic candidate JFK and RFK. Those guys got murdered. And the few mentions about the US Constitution, did not gop pres bush2 say he would wipe his as* on the constitution? Because the patriot act and acta invalidated most of the legislated bill of rights.
Nope. 1234567890
That's all very cute, but it changes nothing.
Let me try to explain again. I'm not certain, therefore I have skepticism. I was the same when I thought my design had an 80% chance of working.
Then you are limiting yourself to a small subset of gods.
Nope. You jump to conclusions often. I think we are working on it hard enough right now. More people are coming to the conclusion that we are probably causing some of it. If it gets to the point where they are the majority they will elect more politicians that support doing something about it since it appears to be likely. The minority will have to come along as they do now.
Yes, and that's why the amendment process exists - so we don't have to blatantly misinterpret the meaning of a "living document" to suit our political biases.
If that's all the amendment process is for: "... to suit our political biases." then we really don't need it, do we?
But then it's fallacious to say that an atheist president cannot uphold our rights. We believe that humans have the same rights that you believe they have, except without God giving it to them. We believe that humans have those rights and that the Bill of Rights in the Constitution restricts government oppression of those rights, not that the government gives it to them.