day no. 15,446: because He said so

"The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal.There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man." 

-- G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America

Men are either equal because God said so or they are unequal because no one said anything.