You will note that I wrote about human rights - not the American Declaration of Independence. The American Declaration is an outdated document. For a start, most of us in the civilized world no longer believe there is a god. I most certainly don't. We were not created. We evolved through evolution.

I've worked in many countries - 2 in Africa, 5 in Europe, two in the EUK, and, of course, America. The only country I felt frightened all the time was in America. I never felt free there. Perhaps, as you appear to be American, that is why you feel a slave to government. In no country that I have worked in have I felt a 'slave to brutal government.' Nor to those countries which I have visited.

Then you seem to quote the meaning of entitled from a dictionary. I have been published since 1962, have worked as an editor for publishing houses, etc. and I most certainly know what the word means, so I'm unsure of why you had to spell out the word for me.

Yes, I know you feel entitled in the USA. That's part of your problem. When one feels entitled, one is never grateful for what one has, and that is probably why you come up with statements about 'brutal government.'

You are not 'endowed' by 'your creator,' for the simple reason that a) there is no creator and b) you exist simply as an accident of birth. No one is endowed with 'rights' at birth - not a tiger, or a lamb, or a fish, or a human. That is just a crazy, primitive belief.

The bottom line here is that you think you're entitled to a whole lot of things because you were created by a non-existent god. It was written in the 18th century by people who didn't have the level of knowledge that we do today, and who still believe in gods.

You're right. You did not contradict yourself. I simply did not understand what you were saying. I'm unaccustomed to dealing with people with your level of belief.