“You are Atheist, are you not?”
Yo.
“Well, if you are, your hypocrisy is extraordinary. In an Atheist world, no one has rights.”
Far as I can tell, we ARE in an atheist world. I don’t believe any gods exist, including yours.
No one has god-given rights, no. But we can grant ourselves rights, such as was done with the US Constitution, the Bill of rights, and a number of court decisions that set precedent.
No hypocrisy needed.
“No one is entitled to anything.”
Just what we wrest for ourselves and guarantee to our neighbors…
“In an Atheist world, the state gives and defines rights,”
Jefferson was against listing rights because he feared that literalists would limit us to those enumerated.
His, and other’s stance was that we have PLENTY of rights, just from being living humans, and the state only ‘identifies’ and ‘defends’ them.
“therefor the state is the only thing in existence that has any natural right,”
Well, if Men made the Constitution that grants the government any rights, they’re not natural rights, you illiterate goon.
“and that right is to define the rights of it's subjects.”
Yes. The Bill of rights lists some, and the Supreme Court has, many times, defined exactly what rights we have and what they mean. Such as our Miranda Rights.
And you call me a hypocrite?