The “all men are created equal” mess in the Declaration of Independence is the most damaging and subversive mess ever penned by an American. Think about it. One cannot believe in a sovereign and involved God and believe that mess. Why, because we clearly are NOT equal, even in our natural condition. Certain men are endowed with athletic gifts, physical gift, looks, intelligence or whatever that they had absolutely no control over. God clearly did not create them equally.
Now, if we omit the “…created equal” and merely say, “All men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights….(you know the rest), then it essentially says the same thing without the poison pill of equality. Men have rights granted by God and governments are ordained to uphold them. When those governments don’t, they don’t deserve to exist.
But equality? No, it is an impossibility. And if we mean equality before the law, fine, but the law is from man and not from God. This idea of “divine equality” is pernicious. It establishes a separate virtue from the enumerated inalienable rights. Thus, today we can subordinate rights to life, liberty, property to equality. Think about it, is that not exactly what affirmative action purports to do? It is government with a foot on the scales to the detriment of one person’s inalienable rights in the name of “equality”. It is why we can’t we tell the tranny freaks to sit down and shut up. Because they are equal to normal people. And as we have seen equality now trumps the other rights. It is the trope Lincoln used to bash Southerners and deny them their lives, liberty, and property.
If you look at all the evil done by communist and socialist governments over the decades, it is always done in the name of equality.
If you go back to Adam and Eve in the Garden, how did Satan tempt Eve? He promised Eve to be “like God”.
Last edited by JoeBob; 02/15/24.
