Andrew Wilson
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And it was part of the initial compromise anyway.
When we're talking about the idea of rights, to get this back to the idea of rights, right,
Why is it that states don't have the right to do that?
Well, it's because there's an interpretation of an amendment.
And then they said, well, you no longer have the right to have your own religions inside of these states.
That's what they did.
I was like, and who has the force?
They do.
So everything really comes down when you're talking about rights to the ideas of force.
And the reason that that's so important to understand is because this republic, when we moved it towards a direct democracy, the reason that that's going to fail is because people don't understand this concept that rights only exist as some kind of bizarre social construct if they're not grounded in God.
How does a secular society uphold rights?
How?
You still utilize it through force.
Right.
The Scripture doesn't prevent you from utilizing force.
With this idea of Christian pacifism and Christians being pussies, I don't know where that came from.
Britain, I think.
Boy, that was never.
Which ones?
Which ones do you want to dive into?