Reply #69: Who knows?

[Marie26]

To be clear, I'm not saying God exists, or that one God's better than another. Or even that "inalienable rights" exist anywhere outside philosophers' minds. But the concept of "unalienable rights" arose during the Enlightenment, when philosophers like John Locke, Jefferson & Rousseau postulated that man is born with certain natural rights. And if you asked them this question, they'd say that man was endowed w/those rights by the Creator/God. So. I think "God" is the correct answer to the question. But IMO they weren't using "God" in the literal, Biblical sense, but mostly to signify that inalienable rights come from a greater authority/power & can't be taken away by human governments. It's a higher law, that human laws & leaders cannot contradict.