Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va) recently claimed that rights come from government, not from God. That’s not just political spin, it’s warmed-over Marxism dressed in a blue tie. Anyone who has cracked open the Communist Manifesto can recognize the script—abolish religion, place the state above God, and let government grant and revoke rights like library cards. This is the oldest trick in the socialist handbook: erase God’s authority, replace Him with the state, and keep citizens dependent on their political overlords—all in the name of equal rights. Kaine is mouthing the very doctrine that every freedom-loving American should reject, because once the state becomes your god, your rights exist only as long as it tolerates them.
It’s ironic that Kaine hails from Virginia, once called the birthplace of liberty. True, Virginia’s past is scarred by slavery, where people were treated as property with no rights at all. And here’s the ugly truth: Kaine’s statement is little more than a modern echo of that mindset. By insisting government, not God, bestows rights, he’s essentially saying your freedoms belong to your master—except this time, the master is the state. We fought the British to end such tyranny. Democrats like Kaine fought a Civil War to preserve it, then institute Jim Crow laws to keep tyranny for 100 years while gaslighting Americans that they were the protectors of freedom. Now Kaine seems perfectly content to reinstall this failed notion, wrapping it in progressive language.
The American founding fathers were crystal clear. Jefferson wrote that all men are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” Madison warned that if government could grant rights, it could just as easily take them away. These men were not perfect, but they understood a timeless truth: rights rooted in government are temporary, rights rooted in God are eternal. Kaine’s position runs directly against this wisdom. His is not a debate over philosophy, he seeks to dismantle the very framework that keeps tyranny at bay. To pretend otherwise is to rewrite history and sell Americans into a system where freedom is conditional.
And let’s be honest—Kaine’s not a lone wolf. Much of the Democratic Party applauds this theology of the state. You see it in their relentless defense of abortion, their eagerness to restrict religious expression, their elevation of government as moral arbiter, and their redefinition of natural law. When you remove God from the equation, you get a state with unlimited power and citizens with none. Kaine just said the quiet part out loud. His words should serve as a wake-up call: there is no freedom without the recognition that rights come from God, not government. Galatians 5:1 says, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” Any other path leading straight back into chains is, say it with me…Stupidocrisy.
Sources:
- Breitbart: “Donald Trump Reproaches Tim Kaine for Attacking American Belief Rights Are God-Given”https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/08/donald-trump-reproaches-tim-kaine-attacking-american-belief-rights-are-god-given/
- Washington Stand: “Senator Kaine Claims Rights Come from Government, Not God”https://washingtonstand.com/article/senator-kaine-claims-rights-come-from-government-not-god-
- Declaration of Independence, National Archiveshttps://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
- Constitution Center, “The Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights”https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/white-papers/the-declaration-the-constitution-and-the-bill-of-rights
- Virginia Declaration of Rightshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Declaration_of_Rights
