"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."
Some of us, who haven't suffered through the last 15 or so years of public education, will recognize those words as coming from our Declaration of Independence.
Our founders recognized that the rights of men were not granted by kings or land holders or such. These rights come from a place where no one man or group of men hold sway. These rights we are born with and are granted to us by a power no one can challenge or change. They believed that the rights we have, all men have, and that they come from our Creator.
Over the years religion is slowly being driven from our society., and this just didn't start in the US. Some references are made to the decline of Christianity starting back in the late 1800's. Why? Some might believe we are more "enlightened", some that we are more "evolved", some are just to lazy to get up on Sunday and do the work or are embarrassed to voice their beliefs.
Look closely though, if God is removed from our society, then where will we say our rights come from?
Our current group in Washington would love to have you believe that your rights come from them. That their intellectual prowess is all that is necessary to make all thing clear, and nothing will work better than the way they lay it out.
There are many rich elitists who put their financial muscle behind what they feel are the causes that need to be addressed to give the world "proper direction". This is not something new, it has been going on since at least the industrial revolution began and allowed great accumulations of wealth. This desire on the part of our perceived "betters", at least in their minds, to care for and nurture us, reverts us back to a day when kings and their barons dictated the rules of how they rest of the "rabble" would be governed.
The creation of America broke that chain and allowed each of us to have a voice in how he or she was governed. Which causes we find important, and to what degree we will support with our pocket books those causes.
The idea that unelected elitists control our policies should be unacceptable to any liberty loving individual anywhere.
WP
“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have."--Barry Goldwater
If we give the government the power to confiscate our arms we also give up the ultimate means to combat that corrupt power. In doing so we can only assure that we will eventually be totally subject to it.” —Ronald Reagan
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