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The Declaration of Independence is Wrong!

1. The term ‘inalienable rights’ is probably extremely familiar with most people.
   1. These rights that are God-given, and therefore, cannot be taken away by any other individual or group of people.
   2. 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
   3. The conversation usually is surrounding politics and, in my experience, most often in response to government overreach.
   4. The reason I bring this up is because most political commentators, yes conservative, usually say this opening line of the Declaration of Independence and it always causes me to ponder…
   5. As a disciple of Christ Jesus, what rights are given to me? Do I have the right to free-speech? Do I have the right to bear arms and protect myself? Do I have the right to the pursuit of happiness?
2. I ask these questions because what I hear from commentators like Michael Knowles, Rush, and these other conservative voices is that being a Christian and a political conservative are synonymous. Now they don’t go right out and say it but they defend the rhetoric of the Declaration of Independence and use the argument of, ‘these are God-given rights that the government is trying to take away’.
   1. The last thing I want is for people to not understand, or worse yet, misunderstand the Gospel of Jesus Christ and what it means to follow him or not follow him.
   2. So the question remains, as Christians, what truths do we hold self-evident?
3. The Bill of Rights
   1. 1 - Nope!
   2. 2 - Nope!

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