一劍兄還是常去教會走走吧。獨立宣言原文是：We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal翻成中文是：我們認為下麵這些真理是不言自明的：所有的人被上帝平等所造（或譯作：造物者創造了平等的個人）。
當時天朝人不僅不信基督，還反基督，相信人是猴子變的，所以當然在翻譯時要把“被造”給抹掉。抹掉的後果就是“人人生而平等”，主語變了，從你在上帝眼裏的平等變成了你得和他人平等。上帝對每個人都有不同的計劃,你我做主語時的確沒有平等。
美國是基督教建國，當時所有建國之父都對基督教有足夠的理解。所謂基督教信仰第一相信有一個創造萬有的上帝，他至善至美至愛公義且一直在掌管這世界，人類是照著神的形象由神所造。第二相信人類有sin(撕恩），因著神造人的同時賜給人類的自由，人拿來背離神的恩典，因自由意誌而任意妄為，因此與神隔離。第三有救贖，因神的愛耶穌降世為人死在十字架上為人類贖罪，隻要你相信就可以與神和好，進入永生。從這福音第一點出來的是人的生命任何他人，組織，政府不可侵犯，從第二點出來的是人的自由任何他人，組織，政府不可侵犯。這叫天賦人權，是獨立宣言在”人被上帝平等所造“後所記錄的內容。當然了這裏的“天賦”是聖經裏的“神”賦的，你必須信有這個神，你才會相信你有這些天賦人權。我們說隻有聖經是普世的，除了聖經之外，不存在普世價值。
Logical? Give me a break. Now, I realize you don't have a clue. Bye
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回複 'sufficient' 的評論 : it is too for to discuss history here. We already face to so much issues today. Even according to your comment here, usa was not built upon the principle of “people equals to other”. That’s what I am saying: that we can’t build a country on that. Totally don’t understand what you were complaining about. Be a bit logical.
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Hate to prick your romanticized fantasy. Your ignorance in history is astounding. I don’t even know where to start. To name a few, United States in its establishment was neither the land of liberty nor equality. It was not the intension of the founding fathers to build a society as you like to eulogize. Under the constitution, only about 12% of the population were eligible to vote, never mind the women, the white indentures servants and the Nigro slaves. Its law was almost entirely based on the British law. Its notion of liberty was more an aristocratic interpretation of freedom. The landed gentries wanted to have liberty from above, the British Monarch and liberty from below, those whose social stations were beneath their patrician status. In fact, the very constitution was designed to keep the populace from interfering with their patrician rule of the country. As John Marshall had put it famously, “People who own the country ought to govern it “His notion of the “people who own the country” was far cry from the modern notion of citizenship.
