Independence day came and went. G>K> Chesterton once wrote that America is a nation with the soul of the church. And he saw the substance of the American Soul most clearly in our Declaration of Indepedence. At the heart of the declaration is the recognition of an inalienable right to life. But that right is rooted in a broader framework of assumptions about what right are and where rights come from.The Declaration assumes that America is one nation under God, and that all men and woman have God given rights. It assumes to defend and promote these rights. The founders were men of reason and the America that they founded was not intended to be a theocracy. In fact the opposite, The Founders specifically disallowed any state sanctioned religion. Nevertheless, the government they did establish was founded on theistic, it not explicityly Christian, ot cannot be denied that our government is based on a belief that human rights do come from God,not governments and that the world is in the hands of what the Declaration called Natures God and the Supreme judge of the world.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:27:01 +0000
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