一剑兄还是常去教会走走吧。独立宣言原文是：We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal翻成中文是：我们认为下面这些真理是不言自明的：所有的人被上帝平等所造（或译作：造物者创造了平等的个人）。
当时天朝人不仅不信基督，还反基督，相信人是猴子变的，所以当然在翻译时要把“被造”给抹掉。抹掉的后果就是“人人生而平等”，主语变了，从你在上帝眼里的平等变成了你得和他人平等。上帝对每个人都有不同的计划,你我做主语时的确没有平等。
美国是基督教建国，当时所有建国之父都对基督教有足够的理解。所谓基督教信仰第一相信有一个创造万有的上帝，他至善至美至爱公义且一直在掌管这世界，人类是照着神的形象由神所造。第二相信人类有sin(撕恩），因着神造人的同时赐给人类的自由，人拿来背离神的恩典，因自由意志而任意妄为，因此与神隔离。第三有救赎，因神的爱耶稣降世为人死在十字架上为人类赎罪，只要你相信就可以与神和好，进入永生。从这福音第一点出来的是人的生命任何他人，组织，政府不可侵犯，从第二点出来的是人的自由任何他人，组织，政府不可侵犯。这叫天赋人权，是独立宣言在”人被上帝平等所造“后所记录的内容。当然了这里的“天赋”是圣经里的“神”赋的，你必须信有这个神，你才会相信你有这些天赋人权。我们说只有圣经是普世的，除了圣经之外，不存在普世价值。
Logical? Give me a break. Now, I realize you don't have a clue. Bye
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回复 'sufficient' 的评论 : 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.
