True. In the U.S. our laws are based on the laws of nature and God’s Laws—that is specifically written in the Declaration of Independence. It is there because the Founders adopted John Locke’s Theories who read Cicero who had stated that laws that go against Natural Law and God’s Law are unjust.
This idea of the pursuit of happiness is tied into the nature of man—that need for private property and biological relationships and those laws apply to the natural family—that a baby has the natural right to be raised by his biological parents is known to protect him in the best way possible from emotional and physical abuse.
That said, Marxism, of course, denies the nature of man and states it as evolving—always changing. Locke and the Founders said NO—the nature of man has never ever changed in the 2000 years of history they fervently studied.
Of course, Marxists don’t want you to understand and know history because then they can lie about everything and make such idiotic claims that homosexual behavior is genetic and not a fluid lifestyle—which has been always more connected to pagan orgies and no sexual restraint and pederasty.
It was the Jewish religion that developed the religious aspect of marriage first and sexual sin and which the Catholic Church continued. Aquinas aligned Catholic Theology to Natural Law Theory so fine tuned it to logic, reason and science to raise up the value of women in societies which give them worth which is unique in history—as the Christian religion always has made even the least among us, including lepers, have worth.
Catholic Theology directly led to rigorous intellectual studies and led directly to Copernicus, Gallileo and Newton and Keppler. Christian ideology which was based on Aquinas Natural Law Theory was also very compatible with scientific knowledge and this all led to the Enlightenment and all the greatest literature, like Milton, Dostoevsky Shakespeare, etc.
Christian ideas in Western Civ is what created individualism and gave us a system of government that has given rights to minorities and women like no other nation on the face of the earth. The Protestant Christian ethic made economics here the most successful on earth because of the industriousness and trust and character that was promoted by the culture and majority of the people.
Perfect no, but more perfect than anything ever in history.
...”Of course, Marxists don’t want you to understand and know history because then they can lie about everything”...
That’s why I am so thankful for the home school movement. Publik skool kids might not learn real history, but I know what you are talking about... not because I went to publik skool when I was a kid (learned practically NOTHING about history), but because I home school and have learned it all along with my son! Just read a book about Copernicus today... and Thomas Aquinas, wow! If only all children could receive a quality education. But then the Marxists would have one leg of their stool taken from them ;)