Right, there's never a new post on Saturdays! Except today.
"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." So says the Declaration of Independence, approved and signed by the American founders in 1776.
Fortunately this truth was "self-evident" to the founders - to the benefit of millions upon millions of the world's people. But it was most definitely not self-evident to the rest of the world. What was self-evident to the rest of the world was that class and race made people fundamentally different.
The American declaration's creed is a corollary coming out of that Bible concept of imago dei - all of humanity was created in the image of God - which underlies all human rights.
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