Religion does not get a pass to pick and choose which laws it follows and whose equal rights it will accept, no matter how it twists the facts like it so freely does with Bible verses.

It does not hold the position it likes to claim.

Because the personalities and backgrounds of the Founding Fathers were what they were, and as they were writing the justification for the colonies to become a country in its own right, wording was important and had to be precise.

There could be no room for interpretation. Every word and sentiment had to be carefully weighed.

When the justification for breaking from the mother country, the first time this was to be done by declaration as opposed war, is presented, both to the leaders of the country from which to be separated and to the people in whose name the separation is being made, the justification has to be precise and provable.

The Declaration of Independence lists only civil offenses to which the colonies objected as government in any form is undeniable and its existence and form known to those who govern and those who are governed while, when it comes to the concept of a deity, and certainly when it comes to religion, it is not so.

In the introductory paragraph where the dissolution of an established form of government is defined and justified, as is the need to respect the opinions of mankind, the Founders refer not to some supernatural power, but to the powers of the earth and the equality established first by the Laws of Nature and then by the Laws of nature’s God. Placement is proper and precise, and nature comes first giving it the superior position.

“and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

When dealing with the rights of man, a major justification for the break, the word “creator” is not defined, and in not being, it is not limited to one specific concept. It, rather, allows for whatever one sees as the creator to be the source of human rights so long as they accept that human rights, of which the listed ones are only examples, are the rights automatically based only upon ones being human regardless the source of that humanity. Religion is not the controlling force, the fact that one is human is.

The rights are intrinsic. Whether one believed in a single God, a single triune God, a pantheon of god’s, or a scientific event, the only thing that needs to be understood is that these rights do not depend on the opinion of any human or any group, or any religion.

And this belief was “self evident”.

“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.”

And, as should be the case, along with claiming that offenses existed, the Founding Fathers listed those specific offenses in the name of precision. They did not make a broad, open ended claim, but listed the complaints.

The king was the head of the specific government being addressed, and the complaints included:

• His refusal Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
• His forbidding his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance.
• His obstructing the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary .
• His making Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of office.
• His erecting a multitude of New Offices to harass our people and eat out their substance.
• His keeping a Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures in times of peace.
• His rendering the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
• His combining with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution.
• His quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.
• His protecting them from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.
• His cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
• His imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
• His depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
• His transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
• His abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province which could be prelude to introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
• His taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
• His suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
• His abdicating government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
• His plundering our seas, ravaging our coasts, burning our towns, and destroying the lives of our people.
• His transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny.
• His  constraining our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear arms against their own friends and families.
• His exciting domestic insurrections amongst us.

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It was because of these offenses

“That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.”

Nowhere in this list of grievances that justified the separation and creation of the United States of America does religion play a part.

This was going to be a secular country with civil laws, so no references to any religious complaints were included, nor was any claim made that religion was the basis of the country’s founding.

All offenses and remedies are secular.

When the U.S. Constitution was written, again, to be precise, the Founders stated its purpose quite clearly.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Again, religion was not its purpose, nor was it necessary to bring the country into being.

The core of the Constitution, the seven Articles, contained the provisions establishing our civil government. The first three articles  established three branches of government; the next three described the rights and responsibilities of state governments, the states in relationship to the federal government, and the shared process of constitutional amendments; and the last established the procedure for ratifying the Constitution.

When it was seen  necessary to add amendments to the original document that listed the rights of the people, James Madison presented his ideas of what should be included.

In reference to religion he stated,

“The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.”

People who are not believers in any religious system have full and equal rights of conscience.

It was clear in his defense of adding Amendments to, while not editing, the original document, that while religion would not be controlled neither would it be in control, and it certainly would have no power over the human rights of others as they are intrinsic to humans and not dependent on any religious belief or adherence to a specific higher power whether some nebulous entity or an anthropomorphic concept of a God or gods.

The First Amendment states,

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”.

The rights of man are intrinsic to humanity regardless of origin. The offenses committed and which justified separation were secular and the offenses of man.

The country was not founded on religious grounds nor was religion included in the founding document, and God is not inc!used in any Article or Amendment in the Bill of Rights.

This country was founded on human rights, and religion’s attempt to claim precedence over that is to attempt to overthrow what the Founders established by usurping the basis of this country.

Any religious group to claim their beliefs have precedence over the human rights of any and all citizens is anti-American and an attack on the foundation of this country.

Believe what you want in church, but take your place among the rest of us, and don’t, just don’t claim to be superior to anyone in this country on the false assertion that religion trumps the reason this country exists.

If you want to benefit from the infrastructure paid for by citizens of the United States, rather than decide which citizens you will feed, house, administer health care to or to whom you will extend the benefits from your charities, who will be allowed in your place of business, entrance to which can only be reached by public streets and sidewalks, or who  should be respected based on your religion, remember that human rights take precedent over religious rights in this secular country, and bake me that damned cupcake!