Dear en,
I read with interest your article by Edward Vines in the October en on the ‘Slide in Society’, with many illuminating views and quotations.
However I cannot view the Declaration of Independence as an essentially Christian document. The idea that we are ‘endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights … among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness’ is surely humanism, not Christianity, a product of the so-called Enlightenment. If we want to know the true position of man before his Creator we are better served by the historic creeds. ‘The chief end of man is to glorify God, and enjoy him for ever.’
