The Declaration of Independence is basically the birth certificate for
our nation. The people who signed it were risking their lives,
the
lives of their family and their property because they were declaring
war
with England and were now branded as traitors to the King of England.
You
can bet they insisted on agreeing with everything written in it, for
they
would not risk their lives for something they considered a lie, or
unimportant.
Many of the people who signed this document played a major part in
laying
the foundations for this country, most notably ; John
Hancock, Thomas Jefferson,
Benjamin Harrison, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, and John Adams. If
anyone
knew it this country was intended to be a religious country or a
secular
one it would have been them.
This article will only cover the religious language.
"the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature's God entitle them..."
Who is nature's God? If they were talking about random chance like
an atheist would be if they made the same statement you would have to
wonder how can random chance entitle anybody to anything?
"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..."
How are all men created equal? Some are rich some, are poor, some are
born healthy, some are born sick. Are founding fathers could not have
been referring to the circumstances surrounding our births. I believe
this statement refers to us being created in God's image, since in
God's eyes we are all created equal. Who is our creator? They
couldn't be talking about our parents because the parents our founding
father's knew often did not have
these rights, so how could they endow their kids with them?
However the Christian God gives us liberty in the fullest,
even the freedom to reject our creator, no matter how sad it
makes him.
"protection of divine
Providence."
divine- refers to deity or
superbly good
Providence- When capitalized is either a city in Rhode Island
or divine guidance
So this phrase basically says the protection of god's guidance.
While this doesn't prove the Christian God played a big
role in forming our government, it does help to show that this
was not a secular nation.
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