We are often told that our Constitutional rights are "God given".
Really?
I have a question for you. If "rights" such as life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, private property, privacy, ownership of land and other property, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, self-ownership, etc. are given by the gods, why are they not more universal?
Rights are, or should be, immutable. In theory, they exist as a basis for human existence. De facto, they are derived by people as the basic laws of a just society and must be defended constantly. Whatever rights are, they are not given by the gods, or they would be ubiquitous, and they are not. This speaks to either the nonexistence of the gods, the nature of rights, or both.
DF