Do atheists fake egalitarianism?

[Jenny A]

The Declaration of Independence suggests that egalitarianism is more than a political movement.....that it is a brute fact of nature established by God and not some choice made by society. 

Yes, but the idea was NOT that people are all of equal ability.  The idea is that people all have an inherent right to be treated equally according to what they do, not who they were born to.  And although they declared the right given by a creator, they knew damn well that the right was a societal choice.  They were rejecting English rule as a societal choice.

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Egalitarianism is a recent modern phenomena.  It is not something we evolved.  It is an assumption that certain human societies accept and other human societies reject.  If it is but a choice and not a universal truth, then there is nothing wrong with a society deciding gays are lessor human beings or women shouldn't vote.

It is a choice.  A moral choice in favor of fairness. And there is something very wrong with deciding gays and women are lessor human beings.  It's unfair.

We do slowly build better cultures.  Cultures evolve too.  But it's human beings who make those steps forward.  Belief in god tends to retard not foster fairness.