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I don't know what you mean "have gained control...to a shocking degree" -- Christians are the ones that founded the country. "We hold these truths to be self-e

I don't know what you mean "have gained control...to a shocking degree" -- Christians are the ones that founded the country. "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"... Show some gratitude for the religion from which grew the very concept of human rights you now take for granted in the West and for the faithful who overthrew monarchs to enshrine those rights, which they believed were given to them by God.

krapp 9y ago
>Show some gratitude for the religion from which grew the very concept of human rights you now take for granted in the West and for the faithful who overthrew monarchs to enshrine those rights, which they believed were given to them by God. Those same monarchs believed they held the divine right to rule given to them by the same God, and those same Christians believed that same God justified their enslavement of their fellow men, rape and subjugation of women, persecution of Jews, and the genocide of indigenous and "pagan" cultures that refused conversion. You've got cause and effect reversed. The modern concept of universal human rights as espoused by the Founding Fathers comes from Enlightenment principles, not Christian.