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"The American believes that all men and women -- all -- have equal rights, because that is the will of the Almighty and it is God that endows them. Indeed, we believe that no person stamped in the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on, degraded, and imbruted by its fellows."
No, the American *Christian* believes that. It's a weak nation and a weak philosophy that must prop up the Declaration and the Constitution with sectarian dogma. The founding fathers wrote those documents to stand on their own merit. Our nation and philosophy have grown weak by the slow failure of the humanities, once robustly secular, and now personality-cults of higher education presume to speak for America where Enlightenment philosophy once held sway. Our political discourse has fallen into a swoon, and Gingrich and Falwell now preside over our nightmares.
