It means you can't take it away, even if your religion disagrees with it. You and the government have no right to take my life or liberty.
Where do you see anything to the contrary in our founding documents? Where do you see primacy being placed on life above rights?
Many men and women have given their lives to fight for our rights. Are you calling them fools? Without life, some rights still have meaning...like the rights of our survivors not to have your estate confiscated... but that's poor consolation for losing Life. But likewise, having life without Liberty is called slavery. Yes, you live, but our country is based on denying neither of these things.
And regardless...it goes back to the point that if life is a right...then I also have the right not to exercise it. If you agree I have a right to life, then I have an implied right to die...else our whole Constitution and Bill of Rights breaks down.
*shaking head* at you.