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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That looks like a massive imposing of one's religious views on politics to me.
It was Christianity that influenced the founding fathers and gave us the government we have today. The one that gives you the right to spit in its face.
That looks like a massive imposing of one's religious views on politics to me.
It was Christianity that influenced the founding fathers and gave us the government we have today. The one that gives you the right to spit in its face.
Read up on David Hume. He went to church every week. He was a Deist. In his own words to the French Court, he was a committed atheist. His philosophy dominated Revolutionary America. The words you cite are the words of Deists. Deists agreed with Christians in that no man could enslave man by claiming divine rights such as the many monarchs before. This idea is as old as Judaism where God is given ultimate authority. The Jews had had it with Pharaohs who claimed a divine right to have their way with the people. This history was not lost on the Founders. They also included the first Amendment to preclude the state from establishing a religion to recreate the mischief of the past.