(07-20-2018, 10:59 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(07-20-2018, 10:15 AM)mikesez Wrote: It is? Was our Constitution written by a god or gods, or was it written by people like us? 
Let's take a closer look at some of the text.  Now this was just a pre-amble, and was only a precept to, not the message of, the document, but it was written:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and were endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights."
Did you notice the first word there? I think you understand the second clause and the third clause correctly.  But I think you skipped over the first word.

1. Not the Constitution.

2. The statement is "We don't need to tell you these obvious things that the Creator did but we will anyway just to make our point."

1.  I know that quote is not in the Constitution, but I also wasn't the first one in this thread to cite "inalienable rights".  So we were discussing both documents.
2.  Notice you still use the first person plural pronoun - not once, but three times.

WE notice certain things about how the world and other humans work
WE find that a single creator of the world and all humans is the simplest explanation
WE find that equal and inalienable rights exist for each human in light of these findings.. but which rights are on and off the list could be a never ending conversation.

It's not that these decisions are wrong.  These are great decisions to make! Our ancestors made them, and we should as well.  But they are not inevitable, and many societies have been organized around different ideas.

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