thought for the day

"all men are created equal." or let's say for modern day political correctness, "all creatures are created equal."

two things at work have come into make me take a deeper look on this issue.
during a training class, i was told many things that we hear attributed to a source have been altered such that they either mean something completely different or are not from the definitive source they are attributed to. such as people saying the bible says (fill in the blank). the instructor said, "history is a big hobby of mine. once i heard someone quote the bible, but what they were actually quoting was abraham lincoln." then today an end-times prophet was complaining about being treated fairly. to which i said "all people are equal." he said, "well, no. but all people should get an equal chance."

so, i have come to a fundamental flaw with the declaration of independence. the second paragraph starts with this sentence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

now, i am thinking...people like to say everyone is equal as if it were gospel. does it ever say in the bible that all people are created eqaully? or have others mapped the ideal from the declaration or some other document? it is certainly obvious that not all people are equal. otherwise, we would be bored playing games. imagine playing rummy! we would all tie each other all the time. put me on a baseball field and i am no albert pujols. i am not even bob uecker. and looking at things like congenital disorders, it appears that people are not created equally at all. so why does the declaration say we are? and what else are we supposed to believe those founding crackpots that ever expected us to believe such crap?

sure, everyone deserves the same opportunity at life. but who is to say when people have blown that chance? i believe this is a personal case by case basis. the politics of who people encounter and how events shape people will naturally dictate when we've lost our chance and how many chances we get. that's hard to say knowing how many times i have been effed over, but everytime i am down people always say, "things happen for a reason." just accept things and endure, but the "equality" people get is really just priveledge when you stop and think about it.

what the government giveth, the government often taketh away. and that illusion of men being equal has been taken away early and often. so, do we have a "right" to life, liberty or happiness or any of the other crap we have been promised as well? those things are priveledges, we should be thankful when we get them but to expect them is a little naive. the bible doesn't say everyone is equal, and even if it does, that is only a promise when we get beyond.