[robowombat]

That's fine. I personally prefer canines myself. If believing the people who were around in the 1770’s were participating in some cosmic soap opera orchestrated by supernatural powers helps make the chaos of history comprehensible and sensible than that is certainly a valid choice.

[EternalVigilance]

The assertion that our rights come from God, not from men, and that they are therefore unalienable, is the basis for our form of government, and for our claim to liberty.

Sam Adams and the Committees of Correspondence came to the exact same conclusions, thereby helping form the basis for our separation from Great Britain and the creation of this free republic.

Without this assertion of self-evident, plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face truth, just government, self-government, is not possible. All you’re left with is the ‘might makes right’ whims of men, in other words, the exact sort of tyranny that has crushed most of mankind under its boot heel throughout history.

I’m sorry you choose to remain ignorant of what America is.