If you don't speak out, you're complicit?

@Riverman No need to apologize. It's a complicated question. I can see that, but at the same time, The Christian religion heavily borrowed from/followed along with other predated moral codes which was likely just a product of social evolution. All pack animals have strict social boundaries to ensure the survival of their species and have done so with no knowledge of a higher power.

Now, we have come a long way in regards to individual liberties since the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were forged. Most of the progress that we have made in regards to changing our principles for the better has been against the wishes of the more populist American religious. The Christian churches were vehemently against the abolition of slavery and the abolition of Jim Crow laws. What I'm trying to say is that the basic principles may have been founded on religion, but it's for the best that we have followed a more rational and secular morality. I think that many people today would agree that slavery is objectively immoral and would largely dismiss/disagree with, the biblical position on slavery. Appealing to traditional or cultural values still doesn't bring us to an objective truth or knowledge of who is right/wrong.

@TheSeptikSkeptik This topic is worthy of much more time than I can dedicate at the moment. I would like to talk again later. Just let me say that I agree with most of what you say.

This is just my opinion,for whatever it's worth. I am a Christian however, I believe that the Christian Church as a whole had failed us miserably. They have depart so far from the Bible as to be unrecognizable. Much of the what we have today in terms of individual rights has been achieved and/or preserved with no thanks to them. Hope to talk again.