Again, read the Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,”
Why do we have rights according to the Declaration?
Because it is “self-evident” that we do.
That is the basis of all ideologies, that the “truths” they base their beliefs on are “self-evident”, with not merely no need for explanation, but with no functional explanation possible, and none ever provided.
And by all ideologies I mean all, secular and religious.
And by all secular ideologies I mean all, from Marxism to Objectivism to Federalism to everything in between and beyond.
Every last one of them is absolutely dependent on you taking at least one essential principle completely on “faith”, with no direct evidence ever provided, though circular evidence will appear in abundance, because that principle is “self-evident”, and any “reasonable” observer will have no choice but to agree with it immediately upon becoming aware of it.
The pretense that one’s ideological faith is more provable than someone else’s is always just that; pretense; and nothing more.
It is just as wrong to assert that inalienable rights cannot exist with secular musing as it is to assert they cannot exist with divine intervention.
