Says you. I'm not saying that to be rude, simply pointing out that someone else can take a contrary view of the definition and there is no higher authority to play arbiter. So we end up with nothing but semantisicm.
When God and the Judeo-Christian religion is no longer considered the highest authority - all you have is what the authority of men decide.
Men will decide if you have a right to defend yourself or not. Men will decide if you are allowed to make a living or not.
Which is why I say, if a people will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by the tyrants and tyranny of men.
So here we sit, arguing about and against the very principles that established us because they are offensive to most of the population today that no longer consider God, and the biblical religions to have any authority or validity beyond one's own closet.
Because if we have no higher authority from whence our Rights and Freedoms originate, we have no right to complain about where this nation now sits, or complain and worry about the loss of liberty, and the abolishment of freedom as we once understood it. Because we no longer agree on what the definition of liberty is, much less Conservatism. So the rulings of men will decide.
Liberty and freedom will be whatever the whims of men say they are.
Which is why we now have laws allowing perverts to use women's bathrooms and private businesses must bake cakes for homosexual unions.
Tomorrow freedom and liberty will defined as limiting where you can live and how much wealth you are permitted.
If there is no higher authority to play arbiter, unscrupulous vain, ambitious and jealous men will become that highest authority.
And tyrants will rule.
And you have no recourse except to submit - because the mob has decided that what you see as tyranny, is for the larger good of those persons and agendas they serve.
