09-17-2019, 12:58 AM
stanc Wrote:Um, I'm pretty sure that the source of those moral principles was the Bible, which was written by men.
I realize that it wasn't unique to America. However, you were only talking about the supposedly high moral principles of the Founders, so that's what I addressed.
Certainly. There are always some who oppose the status quo. But, that doesn't change or diminish the fact that American society as a whole was considerably more immoral than today.
That was never a point of contention. I will note, though, that the main reason there is more liberty, prosperity, and opportunity for all Americans -- as opposed to only white males, as established by the Founders -- is because of the efforts of progressive activists and legislators.
If we actually were sovereign individuals, we would not have to pay taxes to the government, and the government could not forcibly take our property via eminent domain laws.
"Man is inherently evil." Such a self-loathing attitude is disturbing and dismaying. I do not consider myself or any of my family and friends to be "inherently evil."
Which takes us back to the fact that the Founders obviously did not believe in and practice that. What they actually believed in was white supremacy and male dominance. What they practiced was: what we now call pedophilia; the suppression of white women; the enslavement of black people; and the conquest and killing of indigenous people in order to take their land.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/...of-slavery
n 1830, a total of 3,776 free Negroes owned 12,907 slaves.
-Black historian Carter G.Woodson
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/1900-1924...-suffrage/
http://allenwienerblog.blogspot.com/2015...icans.html
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-...aves/31076