Endowed by Whom?

Last week in a speech to the Hispanic caucus President Obama regurgitated a worn out liberal mantra about "shared values," values that he said British, French, Dutch and Spanish, as well as Mexicans and American Indians "all hold so dear." It was a rather bold statement considering that between liberals and conservatives most Americans can't even agree what those "shared values" are. According to the president it was "faith and fidelity" to those unnamed values that "made us all Americans." After some cheers from the crowd he went on to quote from the Declaration of Independence.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident," he said, "that all men are created equal." He paused, face turned to the right staring at his TelePrompTer, and blinked his eyes several times. Then he continued, "Endowed with certain inalienable rights, life and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Hard core Obama defenders are saying it was no big deal, he was just paraphrasing. If it had been almost any other president that would be believable, but considering Obama's concerted effort to deny or cover up everything Christian in America it is hardly a plausible argument that he just casually overlooked "that they are endowed by their Creator" when quoting from one of the two most important documents in our history. It is particularly revealing when you consider the manner in which he edited the statement. When he reached "equal," he stopped for several seconds, apparently to figure out how to cut the phrase out. It appeared that he actually had to think about what he would say because, as we all know, he is helpless to speak intelligently without a TelePrompTer.

But even if his defenders are correct and it was just a paraphrase, no denial of a Christian Creator intended, it is a bad defense. An endowment is a gift given by someone with the ability to give. You cannot have an endowment without a benefactor. To say we are endowed without saying whom we are endowed by leaves the question unanswered: "Who endowed us with these unalienable rights?" Nature? Nature is simply the material world and its phenomena. Nature carries on in cycles the same way it has for millennia, but it only acts the way God created it to act. Nature can endow nothing. Neither are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness gifts from a non-caring deist god. Deism is a humanist philosophy that denies any godly influence in life at all. A deist god would not endow man with anything. And regardless of what the president has said, Islam had no influence on our unalienable rights either. The pagan moon god, allah, the one Mohammed chose for his religion, had nothing to do with our endowed liberties.

The truth is that Thomas Jefferson and fifty-five other signers of the Declaration of Independence agreed that we are endowed by our "Creator." It is God Himself who gives us these rights. It was the Christian God that Jefferson was speaking of and all the signers consented to. It was the God of Creation as told in Genesis chapter one, and reiterated in John 1:1-3 and Colossians 1:13-18.

The values that Americans share with our Founders are not the values of big government, high taxes, out-of-control spending, abortion on demand, gay rights, class envy, welfare state, illegal alien amnesty and Christian denial that the Liberal Left preaches. The values we share with the signers of the Declaration of Independence are limited government, balanced budgets, no taxation without representation, pro-biblical values such as life and marriage, the right to work to earn your own living, controlled legal immigration with protected borders and a Christian heritage. Furthermore, these are not necessarily values we shared with the French, Spanish, Mexicans or American Indians.

We were, in fact, founded as a Christian nation on shared biblical Christian values, and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights. Those who deny this, people like our historically ignorant president, have no clue as to what our "values" even are. It is time we replaced the liberal anti-Christian elitists in Washington with conservatives who know and understand where America came from and what America is about.