We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, and among them are life, liberty, and property. Without a societal recognition of life, liberty, and property, a healthy classical liberal order cannot exist, and life, liberty, and property are no rights at all unless they were granted us by our Creator.
But under Darwin, there is no Creator. Under secularism, there is no Creator. Under atheistic materialism, there is no Creator. There are therefore no rights. And when sinful men see that such a denial of our Creator and Maker has been established in the assumptions of the populace, the first thought that occurs to them is “job opening.”
And when the state assumes this role, functioning as an immanent idol, they see no need to endow anybody with anything. They do dispense privileges, and they do offer bribes to their favorites, but rights? Never.
Doug Wilson
https://dougwils.com/the-church/stuff-n-cn.html
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