What Are Unalienable Rights & Where Do They Come From?
Posted by Dobrien 1 year ago to Government
March 28, 2019
What are the “unalienable rights” discussed so fervently in the Declaration of Independence? According to the writings of the forefathers and founders of our nation, these “Unalienable Rights” are the rights that are rightfully, permanently and non-negotiably handed down to us by the One God of our Creation referred to in the bible. The unique aspect of the rights is that they make the United States the only country that welcomes and extends freedom of belief to other religions whose doctrine does not impede upon those of another.
As written in the Declaration of Independence which was a document written out of pure bravery knowing without any doubt this document would ultimately lead to a violent revolution with Great Britain, I quote the founders verbatim:
“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.”
This is the reason why elitists tend to eschew the notion of God. The recognition of any power higher than that of man-made authority - even higher than kings or emperors - is a distinctly chilling thought to the would-be tyrant: it reminds him/her that their reign is temporary and that ultimately they will be hauled before a tribunal as a mere peasant to be judged. For someone who disdains the notion of equality as is pre-requisite for assuming an elitist mindset, this reminder grates on their senses and directly conflicts with their internal justifications underpinning their rationalized actions.
Take away God and now you are free to marginalize and assault the remaining two prongs of individuality and humanity - and we've already seen the ways. Communism/socialism is deftly cloaked as communalism where "the need of the many outweigh the needs of the few - or the one" (Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan) thus undermining the notion of individuality being key. Further assaulting this notion is the segmenting of society into intersectional groups where it isn't one's individuality which matters but their presence in a protected status or group which is worthy of societal approbation/license even while - perversely - the individuals comprising the group are marginalized to the point of being meaningless in the eyes of elitists. They are tools rather than fellows.
Which leads directly to the second avenue of attack: the attack on humanity itself. When one is free to massage the definition of a human being, one can suddenly justify literally ANY behavior on the grounds that the other individual isn't really a "person" at all. Everything from abortion to slavery to the Holocaust can be carried out simply by devaluing or redefining "human" to be something which can be ascertained only by the discerning eye of the self-appointed "expert."
"Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance recognizes that one can not have "liberty and justice for all" without first setting the definition of humanity and the worth of the individual as inalienable truths set forth not by a mortal, finite human - well-intentioned or not. Such notions are foundational to a free society and their overthrow will necessarily result in tyranny not only of the individual, but of humanity at the hands of the self-appointed oppressor: the tyrant.
If you can make an argument to the contrary, I'd love to hear it. Hundreds of millions of lives lost to socialist governments who denounced the existence of God are more than enough proof for me - not for the existence of God, but for the necessity of recognizing God as the source of all rights.