NBC stalwart, Chuck Todd, recently went on a rant against the
idea that our rights as American citizens come from God. He played a recording
of Judge Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for senator from Alabama, in which
Moore declared, “Our rights don’t come from government; they don’t come from
the Bill of Rights; they come from Almighty God.”
Todd
appeared flabbergasted at such an “ominous” idea and suggested that Judge
Moore, “Doesn’t appear to believe in the Constitution as it’s written.” Todd
obviously does not understand that the idea of God as the Source of our rights
comes directly from the Declaration of Independence. But what is disconcerting
is that he describes those who think this way as dangerous and almost
un-American.
But
if our rights do not come from God, from whence do they come? A king? A pope?
The news media? Whoever happens to hold governmental power at a given time?
Some might answer, "the democratic majority." History, however, has
shown that without transcendent moral restraints the majority can become a mob
that runs roughshod over the rights of those in the minority.
This
is why the book, Pilgrims and
Patriots, is so vital at this time in our nation’s history. It
is why “Revive America”
events are so important for they have the potential to unleash
another Great Awakening that turns this nation back to God.
Here
is a quote from page 130 of Pilgrims and
Patriots concerning the Founders' view on this matter of the
Source of our rights.
“Jefferson,
Franklin and the other Founders saw human rights as having a transcendent
source, that being, God Himself. They and their forebears had suffered the loss
of their rights, and their being given or taken at the whim of a monarch, pope
or bishop. In this new nation, they were determined to fix them in a place
beyond human reach. Government, they insisted, did not exist to give or take
away rights, but to protect those rights already given by God."
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