![]() We stand on equal footing in Creation, at the Cross and in the Kingdom. Created equal –the conversations of the day related to race, abortion, assisted suicide, disability, medical ethics, slavery, human trafficking, pornography, immigration, AI and virtually every other ethical/political debate are rightly grounded right here in the reality that all of us are created equally in the image of the Creator God.Human beings are the only creatures who bear God’s image and who are endowed with rights that are unalienable, intrinsic, and equal –which takes us back another step: to the words “created†and “equal.†Endowed by their Creator–the Declaration of Independence presupposes a shared or common belief that God is, God created, and human beings are the pinnacle of God’s good Creation.We frustrate ourselves when we attempt to construct a world where individualism reigns supreme and where freedom is not grounded in our common humanity as creatures, in right view of a Creator who is sovereign over all. But you cannot get to a conversation about rights if the foundations of that conversation has been undermined. My rights and your rights and where those two collide. Certain unalienable rights–many of our contemporary conversations swirl around the issue of rights.So let’s start at the end and work our way back. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That statement, that claim, that declaration depends on a number of shared presuppositions. Here the flowing trains, here the crowds, equality, diversity, the soul loves.€œWe hold these truths to be self–evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…†![]() These states are the amplest poem, / Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations, / Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the day and night, / Here is what moves in magnificent masses careless of particulars, /. ![]() The timid and the prudent (as has been intimated) of that day, were, of course, shocked and alarmed by it. Just here, the idea of a total separation of the colonies from the crown was born! It was a startling idea, much more so, than we, at this distance of time, regard it. With brave men there is always a remedy for oppression. They felt themselves the victims of grievous wrongs, wholly incurable in their colonial capacity. Your fathers were wise men, and if they did not go mad, they became restive under this treatment. _As the sun was shining and I was strolling, / Through the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling, / I could feel inside me and see all âround me / This land was made for you and me.  âMark Twain, Puddânhead Wilsonâs Calendar This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. 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.
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