Dark Lies About the Declaration of Independence
The Evil Agenda of Political Theorist Danielle Allen

by
Karen Pansler Lam, J.D.

Over the Independence Day weekend, this YouTube video popped up: America's Declaration - The Fight for Independence/Free Documentary History. So, I watched it. It angered me. The video is a fake documentary of dark political lies. It is pluralist propaganda.

In the video, even though Danielle Allen is a Harvard professor, it is never mentioned. She is presented as a “political theorist.” Political theories are subjective and vague based on conjecture and outright lies presented as facts. Political theorists use aggressive rhetoric and unverified claims to mask their true political identity and agenda. Allen uses these devilish tactics to try to deceive us and conceal her evil agenda: black out the truth that America is a republic founded by Christians.

Allen indirectly asserts without proof or evidence the Declaration of Independence is a declaration of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). This is a DEI LIE. And she asserts our Founding Fathers were a diverse group of flawed Christians, deists, and political revolutionaries. This is another DEI LIE to further her evil pluralist agenda.

False statements about the Declaration of Independence are not misinterpretations. They are interpretative and outright lies. Pluralists reinterpret the Declaration to further their evil agenda of a democratic revolution: multiculturalism – all cultures are equal – and polytheism – all religions are equal.

Interestingly, political theorists like Allen present themselves as enlightened, but sit in spiritual and political and historical darkness – and boldly declare dark lie after dark lie after dark lie after dark lie…

Dark Lie 1: America Is a Democracy

Allen uses the words “democratic” and “democracy” repeatedly to hoodwink us into believing America was founded as a democracy. She is confident that her academic title will give her lies credibility. So, she uses the strategy "repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth" hoping we will believe her repeated false assertions. But repeating this lie over and over again does not make it true. Allen can repeat this outright lie over and over and over again, but it does not change the undeniable truth that America was founded as a republic, not a democracy.

In a 1775 Massachusetts election sermon, Samuel Langdon, the president of Harvard College and later a delegate to New Hampshire’s constitution ratifying convention, he declared that

The Jewish government, according to the original constitution which was divinely established, … was a perfect Republic … The civil Polity of Israel is doubtless an excellent general model …; at least some principal laws and orders of it may be copied, to great advantage, in more modern establishments.

The founders studied the Hebrew republic and past republics such as ancient Rome and ancient Greece and modern European confederacies. More important, they studied the Scriptures searching for political wisdom. And after much earnest prayer for divine guidance, they chose the republican model found in the Scriptures.

In fact, the Book of Deuteronomy was the single most frequently cited work in the political literature of the American founding.

Take you wise men, and understanding,
and known among your tribes,
and I will make them rulers over you.
Deuteronomy 1:13

 
Further evidence that America is a republic is the Founding Fathers called the United States a republic:
 

Elizabeth Willing Powel asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"

Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

And George Washington stated in his First Inaugural Address: "...since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."

But Allen asserts our government is a democracy founded as a radical democratic experiment.  There is no evidence of this. It was not a radical revolution to live under laws demanded by the whims of the majority of the people. Allen has unashamedly made up a radical interpretation of the Declaration.

The evidence is irrefutable...

America was founded as a republic based on the ancient republic of Israel.

Dark Lie 2: A Declaration of DEI

Allen reinterprets the Declaration of Independence as a DEI document. But the Declaration must be read and interpreted as it was written by the colonial patriots. We must look at the original intent – what the founders meant when they wrote the document.

The Declaration asserts the right to govern themselves according to the Laws of Nature and the Law of God:
 

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

The Founding Fathers accept as truth that God is the original Source of law as revealed in nature and revealed in Scripture: “the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them.” In other words, human laws rest on two main foundations: the law of nature and the Law of revelation.

As for the law of nature, the Bible states that people who do not have God's written law can still inherently know right from wrong. They instinctively do what the law requires because God’s Law is "written in their hearts" and governed by their conscience.
 

For when the Gentiles,
which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law,
these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts,

           their conscience also bearing witness,

and their thoughts the mean while

accusing or else excusing one another.
 Romans 2:14,15

 
Sir William Blackstone, English jurist and legal scholar, explained in his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) that human reason helps us discover the law of nature, a concept connected to the biblical idea of God's Law written in the human heart. He taught that this divine law of nature is superior to all man-made law. Blackstone defined the law of nature as the will of God “binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times.”

The Founding Fathers relied heavily on Blackstone's four-volume treatise, Commentaries, which became the most widely owned and read law book in the American colonies. Founders like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton studied and frequently cited Blackstone's work. The text helped shape American views on natural rights, due process, habeas corpus, and the sanctity of life, liberty, and property.

As for the Law of God, it is revealed or divine law, and it is to be found only in the Holy Scriptures.

The second paragraph of the Declaration proclaims:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

We don’t need a Harvard professor to interpret this statement.

Endowed means God-given. The Founding Fathers took it as self-evident that God is the Source of these rights, whether they were found in the Holy Scriptures or were observable in nature. These rights are obvious and unmistakable. These rights are so clear they require no further proof, argument, or explanation to be understood.

These self-evident truths act as the foundation for the rest of the Declaration…

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

The Founding Fathers name some God-given rights – “among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

But Allen takes “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” out of the context of the Declaration. She gives this phrase her own private interpretation, not the original meaning of the Founding Fathers as set forth in the plain meaning of the document.

Life

The God-given right to life must be defined within the context of the Declaration. In other words, the Declaration defines what “Life” means – sanctity of life. In violation of this, George III authorized military force and stirred up domestic insurrections resulting in the death of colonists. The total disregard of the sanctity of life of American colonists was listed in their grievances.

Allen does not address the unalienable Right to Life – sanctity of life – because it goes against her dark agenda: the unborn child’s right to life as opposed to the “democratic” right to abortion – killing unborn babies.

Liberty

The video shows a clip of protestors holding signs declaring “LIBERTY IS AN AMERICAN VALUE” and “EQUALITY IS THE SOUL OF LIBERTY.” But no ethical professor will ignore the original intent of the words liberty and equality. The Founding Fathers wisely understood that liberty must always be within the framework of law. And law must always be founded on God’s Law because He is the Author of liberty.

In plain language, the Declaration is a complaint against the tyranny of George III. It pleads for liberty – freedom from tyranny.

The evidence is irrefutable...

The Declaration is not a DEI document.

The colonists cried out to God for deliverance from British bondage.

And He answered their prayers.

In 1781, He gave them victory over the British.

He gave them liberty.

Proclaim liberty throughout all
the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.
Leviticus 25:10

The Pursuit of Happiness

Just as theologians are not true Bible scholars, but reinterpret the Bible to reflect their personal religious views, political theorists are not true political scholars, but reinterpret historical documents to advance their political agenda. Their theories are private interpretations with a dark hidden agenda. Therefore, political theorists propagate the lie that historical documents meant “different things to different people at the time.”

Allen alleges that “the pursuit of Happiness” meant different things to each of the Founding Fathers. But the Founding Fathers declare the “pursuit of Happiness” is a self-evident truth:  we possess an innate, universal drive to seek happiness. It is self-evident. We do not need a philosopher, political theorist, or theologian to tell us this.

The evidence is irrefutable...

"The pursuit of Happiness" did not mean different things to different Founding Fathers. The Declaration’s list of abuses is loud and clear: under the current conditions of tyranny and oppression, we cannot be happy.

Dark Lie 3: No Christian Language in the Declaration

Allen propagates another dark lie: the Declaration is not Christian in its vocabulary.

Undeniably, since all of the Founding Fathers were Christians, the document’s language is Christian: “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” and “endowed by their Creator.” These are Christian doctrines.

And the Declaration invokes the Christian doctrine of interposition. Civil government is ordained by God. However, when the ruler is disloyal, and violates the constitution to which ruler and subject alike are subject, the Biblical doctrine of interposition makes resistance, allowable, if not binding.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. 

And…

The Declaration appeals to the Supreme Judge of the world:

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

The Supreme Judge of the world is a Christian doctrine.

Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Genesis 18:25

And he shall judge the world in righteousness,
he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
Psalm 9:8

Finally, the Founding Fathers proclaim a reliance on divine Providence:

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Divine Providence is a Christian doctrine.

The truth is irrefutable...

The Declaration expressly includes Christian language.

But Allen lies and says otherwise.

This leads to another dark lie…

Dark Lie 4: Franklin and Jefferson Were Deists

Another dark lie that Allen tries to devilishly trick us into believing is that Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were deists. A deist is a person who believes that a supreme being created the universe but does not interfere with, guide, or communicate with it.

Franklin’s own words refute Allen’s lie. In a passionate 1787 speech at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, concerned that a deadlocked convention would doom the republic, Franklin argued:

I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build the House they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel.

And Thomas Jefferson boldly declared in a letter:
 

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man.

The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.

The evidence is irrefutable...

Franklin and Jefferson professed to be Christians.

The Truth: The Founding Fathers Were Christians

In her dark agenda to black out America’s Christian founding, Allen refuses to acknowledge all of the Founding Fathers were professing Christians. Granted, the Founding Fathers differed on some Christian doctrines, but they agreed to open the Continental Congress with a Christian prayer.

The first prayer of the Continental Congress was offered on September 7, 1774, at 9:00 AM, by the Reverend Jacob Duché, Rector of Christ Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The motion regarding prayers in Congress was adopted on September 6 and Duché's appearance occurred the following day. Duche opened the session with a reading from the 35th Psalm, followed by an extemporaneous prayer. The prayer had a profound effect on the delegates, as recounted by John Adams to his wife:

When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a Motion, that it should be opened with Prayer. It was opposed by Mr. Jay of N. York and Mr. Rutledge of South Carolina, because we were so divided in religious Sentiments, some Episcopalians, some Quakers, some Aanabaptists, some Presbyterians and some Congregationalists, so that We could not join in the same Act of Worship.-Mr. S. Adams arose and said he was no Bigot, and could hear a Prayer from a Gentleman of Piety and Virtue, who was at the same Time a Friend to his Country. He was a Stranger in Phyladelphia, but had heard that Mr. Duche (Dushay they pronounce it) deserved that Character, and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche, an episcopal Clergyman, might be desired, to read Prayers to the Congress, tomorrow Morning. The Motion was seconded and passed in the Affirmative. Mr. Randolph our President, waited on Mr. Duche, and received for Answer that if his Health would permit, he certainly would. Accordingly next Morning he appeared with his Clerk and in his Pontificallibus, and read several Prayers, in the established Form; and then read the Collect for the seventh day of September, which was the Thirty fifth Psalm. -You must remember this was the next Morning after we heard the horrible Rumour, of the Cannonade of Boston.-I never saw a greater Effect upon an Audience. It seemed as if Heaven had ordained that Psalm to be read on that Morning.

After this Mr. Duche, unexpected to every Body struck out into an extemporary Prayer, which filled the Bosom of every Man present. I must confess I never heard a better Prayer or one, so well pronounced. Episcopalian as he is, Dr. Cooper himself never prayed with such fervour, such Ardor, such Earnestness and Pathos, and in Language so elegant and sublime-for America, for the Congress, for The Province of Massachusetts Bay, and especially the Town of Boston. It has had an excellent Effect upon every Body here.

Notice that Adams wrote they read several prayers and Psalm 35: “It seemed as if Heaven had ordained that Psalm to be read on that Morning.”

And…

Go back to the deadlocked Constitutional Convention of 1787 when Benjamin Franklin appealed for prayer for divine guidance: “groping as it were in the dark to find political truth.”

Mr. President: The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other—our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ays, is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of Government, and examined the different forms of those Republics which having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no longer exist. And we have viewed Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the Contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, & they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proof I see of this truth that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that “except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it.” I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move-that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the Clergy of this City be requested to officiate in that Service (emphasis added).

God answered their prayers.

James Madison recorded that soon after Franklin’s speech, Washington noted that

A spirit of accommodation was happily infused into the leading characters, allowing them to work through their differences. Members would later use words like miracle, finger of the Almighty, finger of God, Providence, or superintending Power, to describe the spirit and energy that pervaded Independence Hall.

And more evidence the Founding Fathers were Christians…

John Adams in an 1813 letter to Thomas Jefferson wrote,

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow, that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.

And…

John Quincy Adams proclaimed in an 1837 speech celebrating the Declaration of Independence:

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

And…

Founding Father John Witherspoon, the Presbyterian theologian and president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton), declared in his sermon The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, delivered on May 17, 1776:

He is the best friend to American liberty who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who sets himself with the greatest firmness to bear down profanity and immorality of every kind.

Equally important, we must never forget the Protestant clergy heavily influenced the republican government. Noah Webster on October 25, 1836, wrote in a letter that

The learned clergy . . . had great influence in founding the first genuine republican governments ever formed and which, with all the faults and defects of the men and their laws, were the best republican governments on earth. At this moment, the people of this country are indebted chiefly to their institutions for the rights and privileges which are enjoyed.

Unquestionably, ministers greatly influenced the American Revolution: Jonathan Mayhew, Andrew Eliot, Charles Chauncy, Samuel Cooper, George Whitefield, John Lathrop, Samuel Cooke, and other bold men of the pulpit.

And Christian colleges were founded in early America. Prominent colonial politicians and ministers graduated from Ivy League schools established by some branch of the Christian church: Harvard, 1636; Yale, 1701; Princeton, 1746; Dartmouth, 1754; Columbia, 1754; William and Mary, 1693; and other Christian colleges.

To repeat, early colleges were Christian. For example, Harvard College was founded by Puritans to train ministers. The founding university motto declared “Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae” which translated from Latin means “Truth for Christ and the Church.” Along with a published set of “Rules and Precepts” adopted in 1648, they proclaimed their Christian mission:

Let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the maine end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3) and therefore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisedome, let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seeke it of him (Prov. 2:3).

Founders of America who graduated Harvard include Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, Michael Wigglesworth, and other great men of renown.

Today, Harvard is anti-Christian and anti-America.

The evidence is irrefutable…

The Declaration was a Christian document because our forefathers, including the Founding Fathers, were professing Christians.

The New Promised Land

Many of the early colonists and Founding Fathers used biblical language to describe America as the "New Israel." They believed it was a promised land of divine refuge.
 

Puritan minister John Cotton preached the “land of promise” to Puritan voyagers aboard the Arbella as they were about to set sail from Southampton in 1630. Reverend Cotton drew his text from 2 Samuel 7:10 promising  

Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel,
and will plant them,
that they may dwell in a place of their own,
and move no more.

Later, some of the Founding Fathers used biblical metaphors to describe the new land. On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress instructed Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams to design a seal for the United States. What did these Founding Fathers propose?

Franklin proposed this image (in his own words): “Moses standing on the Shore, and extending his Hand over the Sea, thereby causing the same to overwhelm Pharaoh who is sitting in an open Chariot, a Crown on his Head and a Sword in his Hand. Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Clouds reaching to Moses, to express that he acts by Command of the Deity. Motto, Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.”

Jefferson suggested “a representation of the children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.”

The evidence is irrefutable…

America was founded as the New Promised Land.

Dark Lies to Black out America’s Christian Founding

Danielle Allen propagates dark lies to black out America’s Christian founding and reinterpret the Declaration as a pluralist manifesto.

But the Founding Fathers refute these lies and testify to the true meaning of the Declaration. In other words, Allen’s pluralist lies are refuted by the Founding Fathers in their own words.

The truth is…

The Declaration proclaimed a republic upon the absolute laws of the Bible, not a democracy based on the changing whims of people.

The truth is…

The Declaration of Independence is not a document declaring DEIism, pluralism, socialism, communism, coexistism, multiculturalism, polytheism, ecumenism, or any other evil-ism. 

The truth is…

The Declaration uses Christian language because all of the Founding Fathers were professing Christians.

Pluralists reject America as a “melting pot” and define liberty as resisting assimilation: diverse individuals and groups must peacefully coexist in spite of conflicting cultural values and conflicting religious beliefs.  In other words, destroy America’s predominant Christian heritage, Christian culture, and Christian religion.

O Christian, …

The dark pluralist agenda is to rob us of our Christian heritage, Christian culture, and Christian homeland.

Never forget…

America was founded by Christians and for Christians. 

September 2026
Liberty Advocate
http://www.libertyadvocate.com/

See also:     

Stand Your Ground: America Was Founded By Christians and For Christians
http://www.libertyadvocate.com/message%2020.htm

Christian America? Was America Founded As a Christian Nation?
http://www.libertyadvocate.com/Christian%20America.htm

Ecumenism: Unholy Unity
http://www.libertyadvocate.com/Ecumenism%20is%20Unholy%20Unity.htm

Dancing in the Streets: Multiculturalism
http://www.libertyadvocate.com/message22.htm

Strangers in Our Land; Or, The Duty of Christians to Possess America
http://www.libertyadvocate.com/Strangers%20In%20Our%20Land.htm

God and Government
http://www.libertyadvocate.com/God%20and%20Government.htm

Evangelical Communism: DEI in the Church

http://www.libertyadvocate.com/Evangelical%20Communism.htm

Dirty Rats in the Evangelical Church Spreading the Socialist Plague
http://www.libertyadvocate.com/Evangelical%20Socialists.htm

This Is My Story: The Lord Saved Me from the Depths of Despair
http://www.libertyadvocate.com/The%20Lord%20Saved%20Me%20From%20Despair.htm