Murf76
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Creator is all encompassing, it is nondenominational, non-religious. Native Americans believed in their Creator as the Mother of Nature.
Christians believe their Creator is God, and that's OK. I think Jefferson was very specific not to include any particular religion but yet include all religions and non-religions. He chose his words wisely.
However, his intent probably was not to mean government gives us those rights but rather they should insure those rights are not taken away by too much government.
Every living being deserves the right to life, liberty (aka freedom), and the pursuit of happiness. Government should not be the root of our happiness, ever.
Unless our rights are supernaturally granted, this is an arbitrary abstract of mankind's imagination, subject to revision. There really is nothing intrinsically unalienable about them.
Thus the reason why our fundamental rights are acknowledged to be SUPERNATURALLY endowed.
You're one of my "can't miss" faves, Sniper... but I expect that's why we have the 9th. It leaves the definition of our unalienable rights up to us, to defend them as we identify them. The inalienability of rights are observable.