 The authority of God is superior to the authority of man, but among human beings, there is no human being who has authority directly from God. One of the more pernicious arguments that is around nowadays, though, is that the people who were in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, and those who eventually framed the Constitution, did not believe in God and did not intend to legislate for a God-centered world. Is that pernicious, or is it in fact objective? It's pernicious. Why?