Are humans endowed with certain rights?
That is a philosophical question that can be answered with no more certainty than what is the meaning of life.
Mr. Fitnah:
Mum, how do we know certain truths are self evident?
Mr. Fitnah's Mum:
Because it's written, that's why!!
Yes things are written knowledge is handed down refined and put into practice feel free to ridicule the concept.
The founders did not believe it was an invention of man.
Psalm 115:16
The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the
earth he has given to man.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and
have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Main Entry: do·min·ion
Pronunciation: \də-ˈmi-nyən\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English dominioun, from Middle French dominion, modification of Latin dominium, from dominus
Date: 14th century
1 : domain
2 : supreme authority : sovereignty
3 plural : an order of angels — see celestial hierarchy
4 often capitalized : a self-governing nation of the Commonwealth of Nations other than the United Kingdom that acknowledges the British monarch as chief of state
5 :
absolute ownership
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 Happines
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were
John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions, 1787
