• vortic@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I don’t agree with these religious nuts but, in this case, I don’t think they’re completely off base regarding “God given rights”. The Declaration of Independence (not the Constitution) says:

    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.

    I wish the Declaration didn’t include “by their Creator” but it does.

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      6 months ago

      The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, a deist, who also produced the Jefferson Bible, created by literally cutting out all the mystical woo from the New Testament and pasting the remainder onto pages.

      I can say with some confidence that nobody considered either the Declaration or Constitution as “religious” at the time.