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Is modern secular society headed down the path to Sodom and Gomorrah.
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<blockquote data-quote="Hans Blaster" data-source="post: 77654049" data-attributes="member: 396028"><p>Too bad they didn't say that.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>In Congress, July 4, 1776</em></strong></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><strong>The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,</strong> When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>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.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,</em></p><p></p><p>We start with the "Laws of Nature" and "Nature's God" (not any "Lord God" or the "Holy Trinity" or any other Christian formulation).</p><p></p><p>These are the "self-evident" truths that follow:</p><p></p><p> * all men are created equal</p><p>* they are endowed by their Creator with unalienable Rights</p><p>* to "secure these rights" men make governments "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"</p><p></p><p>This pretty far from the Christian divine right of kings.</p><p></p><p>The language is soaring and leaves vagueness to put any "Creator" into the slot that you would like, but it doesn't say anything like "all people are created in the image of God" (a very Christian phrase).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hans Blaster, post: 77654049, member: 396028"] Too bad they didn't say that. [B][I]In Congress, July 4, 1776[/I][/B] [I] [B]The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,[/B] When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 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.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,[/I] We start with the "Laws of Nature" and "Nature's God" (not any "Lord God" or the "Holy Trinity" or any other Christian formulation). These are the "self-evident" truths that follow: * all men are created equal * they are endowed by their Creator with unalienable Rights * to "secure these rights" men make governments "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" This pretty far from the Christian divine right of kings. The language is soaring and leaves vagueness to put any "Creator" into the slot that you would like, but it doesn't say anything like "all people are created in the image of God" (a very Christian phrase). [/QUOTE]
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