Smut peddler Vladimir Nabokov was the author of Lolita, aptly described by a London editor as "the filthiest book I have ever read". It's not surprising that an individual who denies God would produce such pornographic trash. Suffice it say that this Vladimir Nabokov character, author of a pedophilia book, was definitely not a Conservative.
No way that an atheist can subscribe to “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”
They don’t believe in a Creator, so any rights have to rights that “someone came up with” or “that society decided upon” or “we think now are most important.”
In other words, without them being from God, they are from man, and being from man, then man can change them.
Lolita isn’t smut. Have you read it? VN was a good friend of William F Buckley.