I consider myself quite a conservative, and I watch a lot of videos by the popular American conservative activist Matt Walsh, and I agree with a lot of things he says. However, as a critically thinking person I do not agree with everything he says.
Matt Walsh, like so many American conservatives, is heavily biased by his American-style Christian beliefs. He holds many ideas and concepts that are very common among American conservative Christians, which are either dubious, exaggerated, or just outright untrue.
In his latest video uploaded to YouTube (as of writing this) he says:
"And that's because the men who came up with the ideas that lie at the foundations of our government were all Christians. They were Christian ideas. Human rights is a Christian idea. It makes no sense, actually. Human rights make no sense outside of a Christian world view."
You are incorrect, Matt Walsh.
When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution of the United States and, especially, the Bill of Rights, they were not inspired by the Bible and Christianity. They were inspired by the thoughts and ideas of philosophers like John Locke (who wrote about natural rights and government by consent), Montesquieu (who wrote about the concept of separation of powers), Voltaire (who wrote about free speech and religious tolerance) and Rousseau (who wrote about democracy and the sovereignty of the people).
These were largely (if not completely) secular philosophers, and their ideas were completely secular, not Christian.
There is not a single passage in the entire Bible that talks anything even remotely resembling concepts like "democracy", "free speech", or any of the other rights established by the Bill of Rights.
I challenge you: Go through the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and show me a single Bible passage that can be said to have even remotely inspired those amendments. Just one.
Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, the right to peacefully congregate, the right to redress your grievances with the government? Nothing even remotely similar to those ideas can be found in the Bible, anywhere.
Right to bear arms? Right to be safe from unlawful searches and seizures by the government? Right to a speedy trial and to not incriminate yourself? None of that can be found anywhere in the Bible, or even in Christian tradition.
Those are secular concepts. Those are ideas by secular philosophers. Those philosophers did not base their ideas on the Bible or Christianity.
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