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18 November 2021 #MAGAanalysis #1AMinuteMen

The 21 Ideas That Formed America – Part 3

In each segment of this analysis I'll provide the 21 ideas, and the 6 points that contain. As always, shout out to @Shestokas and…

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2) Here's the list:

1) Hold
2) Truths
3) Self-Evident
4) Men
5) Created
6) Equal
7) Endowed
8) Creator
9) Unalienable
10) Rights
11) Life
12) Liberty
13) Pursuit Of Happiness
14) Secure
15) Governments
16) Instituted
17) Deriving
18) Just
19) Powers
20) Consent
21) Governed

3) The first three points:

1) We hold these truths to be self-evident
2) That all men are created equal
3) That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights

4) The final three points:

4) That among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
5) That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men
6) Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

5) And today's terms are:

7) Endowed
8) Creator
9) Unalienable
10) Rights

6) What is an endowment? Consider:

"Harvard Management Company returned 33.6 percent for fiscal year ending June 2021, skyrocketing the University's endowment to $53.2 billion, the largest sum in its history and an increase of $11.3 billion from the previous fiscal year."

7) Outside of investment strategies generating such a phenomenal return, how did the basis of the endowment come into place? Lots of ways, tuition being the smallest. Research grants. Intellectual Property Rights, etc., but most of all...BEQUESTS.

8) This strategy was NOT created by Harvard, or any university. It was created and mastered by the most financially powerful entity on earth, the Roman Catholic Church. Let's talk about that for a moment.

9) It's not plate donations or even family tithing that makes the Church so vastly wealthy. It is the managed funds of their near-infinite bequests. This grows generation by generation. This is how they can afford scandals such as child sex abuse without flinching.

10) The interest on that endowed wealth is already greater than all the church's costs. That's how they can have beautiful cathedrals in tiny villages where no plate donations or tithing could ever pay the upkeep. Then, through asset appreciation and bequests, even more comes in.

11) A bequest ENDOWS its beneficiary with financial power. It grants these assets and this power from one person to another. I do assure you, the founding fathers knew all this and knew it well. They knew what an endowment was. And they're claiming ours for us.

12) As we were created equal, we all have equal rights which we'll be discussing in detail in our next episode. But what is each human's personal endowment? What our we endowed with by our Creator?

13) Rights. Unalienable Rights. That is the answer. I pushed @shestokas on this point hard in the early days of my studies under him. The simple answer he gave me was this. You cannot give such a right away, and no one can take it. Let's use the example of free speech.

14) When you were born you immediate possessed the right of free speech. You didn't have to apply for it. No government granted it to you. You can't give it away. You cannot "alienate" yourself from it. It remains with you under all circumstances. You only lose it at death.

15) Actually, as we'll see tomorrow, you don't really lose it at death. You lose the right of life at death and a dead person has no rights. Free speech is a part of the right of liberty, and that follows the right of life. The logic is beyond compelling, it is irrefutable.

16) Hey, maybe I'm wrong! Maybe even death does not remove your right of free speech. Maybe having your last will and testament read out loud is a right that still belongs to - has not been alienated from - the dead person. We'll have to ask @shestokas.

17) Let's get back to that sticky "Creator" issue. Having been created equal, we're all endowed by our CREATOR with these unalienable rights. By our Creator. So, do atheists have no rights? We did discuss this in episode two but will do so again right now.

18) @shestokas is, by the way, a true-believing man of faith. He is what I respectfully call a GOOD CATHOLIC. He is very aware of my own religious journey and has been such a great help to me, a true friend in parsing all this.

19) He explained that the term "religious freedom" is not and cannot be freedom merely to worship as you will, but still include a mandate that you MUST worship. Rather, freedom of religion MUST include freedom of non-religion AND the right to NOT worship if you chose not to.

20) As a self-proclaimed far right conservative, it has NOT been easy for me to share my non-faith in a personal Creator. But that, @shestokas assures me is the answer, and it comes to us straight from Thomas Jefferson and the founders.

21) Simply by logic, there are TWO possible types of creation: Personal OR Non-Personal. Those who choose to believe in Nature, but NOT in Nature's God are still creatures. We did NOT create ourselves. We name our creator by the term Nature. And there were plenty of us back then.

22) It must be crystal clear that our founders believed in complete religious freedom. And if our conservative movement is to guide America forward it must be as large a tent as the founding fathers intended, to include disbelief alongside belief of any flavor.

23) But they happily poked fun at us disbelievers by forcing us to accept that we were created and therefore, have a creator. Whether we choose to name our creator as God, He, She, It, They...or Nature...no matter. We were created and have a creator. They used caps: Creator.

24) Man did @shestokas and I go round and round on this one. Once he bent my intellectual arm down, and defeated me utterly, it hit me. Oh how I began to laugh. They decided to make fun of me, a couple hundred years in advance. Bastards.

25) Now walk and talk we me, wearing a loose pair of my shoes as we do. Nature has endowed all humans with certain Unalienable Rights. To really get my thinking, we have to go back up to the first paragraph of our Declaration. Let's do that now...

26)

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...

27)

"...and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

28) There it is. That's what @shestokas made me look at. Why is there the word "and" there? Why not just say the Laws of God? Why put the word "Nature's" in front of the word "God," at all? Why do that? You see, Shestokas is an attorney. For him, every single last word counts.

29) So here's my statement of faith. I believe, with all my mind, heart, and soul, in the Laws of Nature. Nature is lawful. Yes, scientific laws indicate human freedom in the form of Unalienable Rights. Come on, man, admit it. That is a beautiful belief. And more...

30) As where A = B, and B = C, so also then A = C, there is no conflict. We both of us, Nature's people and God's people believe the same thing about freedom, and Unalienable Rights. How about that?

Go figure.

Today’s #MAGAanalysis ends at #30.

Admit it, if you haven’t yet, you HAVE to read @shestokas’ book!

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Amen!!!