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flyonthewallzz1 year ago

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I for one do not mind being well endowed by my “creator” with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I can interpret the word “Creator” as I see fit.
The separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them.
I don’t have a problem with this either. Sure some folks have a problem with words like God and creator, but the two statements from the Declaration of independence take nothing away from folks that hold such beliefs.

“The safety and security cannot be achieved apart from reliance upon Almighty God”

Now I do have a huge problem with this statement.
It almost sounds that folks are expecting “Him” to do our bidding.
I kind of see it the other way around.
A statement like that could lay blame after a breach in safety or security on the shoulders of folks who see differently. I think it is hostile to the laws of nature.

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  sumptuousdigs1 year ago
  
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  .I'm fairly well endowed by my creator
  
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    flyonthewallzz1 year ago
    
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    So is my wife.
    Her endowment nourished our creation.
    And I and sure glad my endowment helped.
    Gives new meaning to "Conceived in Liberty".
    Maybe their is a tiny exception to the created equal thing.
    
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  memestryker1 year ago
  
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  Creator is a perfectly useful word. Whatever the source of our existence, we got here through some natural process.
  
  But the Bush administration, like the Eisenhower administration before it, has sought to insert religious metaphor wherever they can find a nook or cranny to do so.
  
  Everyone knows we have freedom of religion and that the addition of religious words to government documents is inappropriate, but those who believe it still push for it--some because they are so indoctrinated they don't recognize the indoctrination, and others because they see it as a tool of social control that they can wield.
  
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