The US Declaration of Independence is in full agreement with Radical Islam (e.g. Afghan Taliban or Iranian Mullas) and with Bronze Age Judaism (e.g. Zionist Israel and its ultra-Orthodox radical government) that rights come from God and not from human laws!
Backward-thinking ultra-religious fundamentalist bigots of the MAGA-GOP brand disagree.
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Kaine: Declaration of Independence's God-given rights ‘extremely troubling’
Alexander Hall
Fri, September 5, 2025
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. warned against the idea of God-given rights used in the Declaration of Independence.
"The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator — that’s what the Iranian government believes. It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities," Kaine said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Wednesday.
"They do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So, the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.
"I'm a strong believer in natural rights, but I have a feeling if we were to have a debate about natural rights in the room and put people around the table with different religious traditions, there would be some significant differences in the definitions of those natural rights."
Sen. Tim Kaine faced swift backlash online after criticizing what many consider to be a core principle of the Founding Fathers.
Kaine was responding to the opening statement of Riley Barnes, who has been nominated to serve as assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor. Barnes noted in his statement that he agreed with Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent comments emphasizing the U.S. was founded on the principle "that all men are created equal because our rights come from God, our Creator; not from our laws, not from our governments."
As expected, all the pseudo-Christian cockroach bigots of the MAGA-GOP-Christian Nationalists creeped out to defend "God" whom they know better than anyone else.
Sen. Ted Cruz, the idiot from Texas, reacted: "I almost fell out of my chair because that 'radical and dangerous notion' — in his words — is literally the founding principle upon which the United States of America was created." But Cruz forgot that when the Declaration was written by white men who owned slaves, raped their female slaves and lynched their husbands, "all men are created equal" meant only white anglo-saxon men, not women (whom God genetically fabricated from ribs or from mud, depending on which rteligious bullshit you prefer), not Black African slaves who were deemed subhuman, not Catholics....
The dumb asshole expert Cruz went on to quote Thomas Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of Independence, saying, "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."
Cruz shared a video of Kaine’s remarks alongside his own and wrote, "The casual condemnation of America’s founding principle is exactly what is wrong with today’s Democrat Party. Government protects our God-given rights, it does not create or destroy them."
One of only 25 known surviving copies of the Declaration of Independence sits on display at Sotheby's in New York City June 22, 2000.
Beanie Geoghegan, the co-founder of Freedom in Education, shared a famous quote from Alexander Hamilton, who said, "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." Pure unadulterated bullshit straight out of a hybridized notion from the deserts of Bronze Age Arabia and from the boonies of 17th century America.
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