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107. Go ask those who founded our Democracy.

Most of them didn't believe in the common Christian concept of god as a benevolent but vengeful Santa Clause sitting on a golden cloud either.
And that isn't the point anyway.

You CAN be an atheist and still believe that Basic Human Rights
exist outside of and beyond the Government, and are bestowed by our creator, even if that creator is only nature doing its thing.
I do.

I also believe the following to be Basic Human Rights,
as did FDR:

"We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.”[3] People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be [font size=3]established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.[/font]

Among these are:

*The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

*The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

*The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

*The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

*The right of every family to a decent home;

*The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

*The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

*The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for all our citizens."
FDR, SOTU, 1944

The reason I joined the Democratic party in 1965 was because, like FDR, I believed that these are basic Human Rights.
There was a time, not so long ago, when voting FOR the Democratic party
was voting FOR these rights.
Sadly, this is no longer True,
and we get farther away from those rights every day.

Whatever one chooses to believe in, whether or not it is framed as a grandfather sitting on a Golden Throne doesn't change the "inalienability"
of these RIGHTS.

It just so happens that OUR country (I assume you are a citizen of the USA)
was ESTABLISHED on the concept that these RIGHTS are above and beyond mere governments.
Most of the founders did not believe in Santa Clause either.
That doesn't change the principles of our Democracy.

Have you read what our founders had to say about a government that attempts to rescind or abridge these "inalienable" rights?