The illiberal left finally proclaimed their tyrannical Atheism in one sweeping ignorant statement from Senator Tim Caine – best known as Hillary Rotten Clinton’s VP candidate. Caine said the following:
claims that natural rights come from God as “extremely troubling.”
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 Sharia law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities.
But as mentioned in Hawkin’s Breitbart article – the US is NOT a theocratic regime. We are are a representative republic. And yes – the cornerstone of our Republic is in Jefferson’s often quoted words from the Declaration of Independence: “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…life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…” and was of course only slightly changed from Locke’s 2nd Treatise – “life, liberty and property”. And yes, God and Creator is mentioned several times in the Declaration; God is not mentioned directly in the Constitution – but plays an important part in the critical 1st Amendment – “Freedom of Religion”.
The predominantly Protestant founders were keen to lump freedom of speech with freedom OF Religion – that is, any religion or no religion. And though our demographics have changed drastically over the last two centuries – America has attracted such a diverse citizenry precisely because of our Tolerance – that accepts any religious belief – even atheism.
America has correctly chosen not to rely on flawed men or a government of flawed men to determine laws – but rather we base our Republic on Natural Laws that come from a higher authority. And let me remind the senator and his fellow democrat secularists – that the preamble of the Constitution starts with the words We the People – not WE the Government – and that the only way we were able to get our Constitution ratified was by the first ten amendments – the Bill of Rights – all rights given to the PEOPLE – not the Government! So, if you are a Deist like Jefferson or an atheist – you should recognize that men who become gods like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Mao only lead to destruction and death. Even if you have no religious affiliation – atheist, agnostic, you should thank your lucky stars that you live in this great country – descendants of Judeo-Christian, tolerant, merchant class capitalists – and not the cults of a corrupt Islamic theocracy, or atheistic socialists gone mad from the likes of Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin or yes, Hitler – the national socialist – all mass murderers!
The 20th Century rise of Communist, Nazi atheist rulers in Germany, Russia, China, Cambodia, etc. was responsible for an estimated 100,000,000 deaths and untold destruction. And Caine’s absurd comparison to the American representative republic with complete religious tolerance – that it is anything like the throw back barbarians in a Theocratic Iran – either demonstrates his complete ignorance of America’s founding and foundational principals or just how much he yearns for power – or probably both. The illiberal locusts of the left are clearly power mad fools – and to paraphrase the great Ronald Reagan – it’s not that the illiberal left is ignorant – it’s just they know so much that just isn’t so.