Welcome to a breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, last week, Democratic Senator Tim Cain made this bold statement during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

The notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government, but come from the creator.

That's what the Iranian government believes.

It's a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia law and targets Sunnis, Baha'is, Jews, Christians, and other religious minorities.

And they do it because they believe that they

understand what natural rights are from their creator. So the statement that our rights do not

come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.

Now, it's one thing when a progressive media figure says something like this. For example,

back in 2024, a Politico reporter warned that believing human rights don't come from Congress

or from the Supreme Court, but they come from God. That makes one a Christian nationalist.

But still, it's another thing when a sitting U.S. senator and a former vice presidential candidate

claims this belief is indistinguishable from Islamic fundamentalist. Now, Kane's comments were quickly condemned by

fellow senators and religious commentators for, among other things, rejecting the words of the

Declaration of Independence. But the senator also failed to realize that his own belief, that

rights come from government, that's what

every communist, fascist, and totalitarian regime in history believed. At least the very first part of

the senator's claim is not fully wrong. After all, the Mullahs and Iran, like all committed

Muslims, do believe that human rights come from God, and so do Christians. But that's where all the

similarities end, as Iyan Hershey Ali, who lived in cultures rooted in both Islamic and Christian

notions of human rights, says in the new film Truth Rising, and I quote, you don't have to

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