Re: OT: Much of our culture is based upon ...
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Randallw said: I feel the same way about the idiosyncracies of a piece of paper that is more than 200 years old, out of date, a lie when it was written (Tell the slaves all people are equal)
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This common misconception is a pet peeve of mine. "All men are created equal" was never intended to be the statement of egalitarianism that it's commonly interpreted as today. It was a direct denial of the Divine Right of Kings. A less ambiguous wording would be something like "everyone is equal in the eyes of the Creator".
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