The above quotation would probably get many speakers at College campuses removed forthwith from the stage as advocating the supremacy of God, over the secular rights of mankind, and by virtue of this sentiment, clearly be in direct violation of the separation of Church and State. Oh, how America has degenerated into a land that spends an inordinate amount of time trying to stamp out God and religious activities in everyday life, in the false belief that God's place in this world is only in the House of God, and nowhere else. What absolute bunk!
To demonstrate conclusively the degeneracy of American values in the last fifty-odd years, that quotation above, comes not from some pundit from a religious program, or some professor at a religious school, or a historian trying to be provocative, but in fact, came from a politician. This particular politician, ran for the Presidency of the United States of America, and in so doing was elected, and upon his election he stated in his First Inaugural Address that: "And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God."
The President that made this statement in his Inaugural Address made it clear that the United States fundamentally in its government, in its Constitution, and in its republic, recognized that the rights that we hold so dearly, that of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, come from the very hand of God and not via the State. Further, this fundamental truth is so important and so vital, that for world peace and harmony, this innate knowledge must be spread, learned, acknowledged and implemented by all nations and principalities, so that the oppressive hand of the State can be removed and invalidated, being replaced instead by the guiding light and truth of God.
Unfortunately, that is not the direction that the world has turned, as the leader of the free world, America, has instead made it a point to marginalize God in such a way so as to make the State the preeminent and all-knowing entity that all must pay obeisance to. This is a mistake of epic proportions which, if continued, can only lead to the destruction, collapse, and ruination of America, itself.
What far too many citizens fail to recognize, is if all of our fundamental rights come from the State, and not from God, than what the State has given to us, can just as easily be taken away from us. Further to this point, whatever that the State demands of us, we must adhere to, because as part of this bastardized worldview, we are subservient to the State, itself, and whatever the State deems to be right is right, and what the State deems to be wrong is wrong, no matter our own beliefs.
In the end, there can only be one boss, and that is either the State or God, there is no other way. The State can exist as an adjunct to God, as an adjunct to the natural rights that we are each gifted by God, but if the State instead legislates God out of existence, then the State stands at opposition to God, and that foundation, rests on sand, and will end in the only way that it possibly can.
On January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy in his Inaugural Address recognized the sovereignty of God, a self-evident truth, unfortunately today, that truth more often than not, is a light that many important and influential Americans are trying to extinguish, so as to plunge mankind back into the darkness of ignorance and oppression.