Poor old 'runner'! Still flogging the fast dying horse (should that be unicorn?)of biblical fundamentalism, and creationism!
In a supreme irony, an especially egregious example of one of the most outrageous and ridiculous bible 'spin offs' seems set to take supreme power in the USA.
The rise of the USA to the dominant world power had little to do with christianity in any form at all. It was all about abundant and readily available resources, technological development, and most of all by the relaxation of the then inviolable social structure that suffocated the talent and initiative of the common man.

Yeah, the inherent wealth of a once mighty America came from mineral wealth, iron ore and steel manufacture and total independence in energy supplies.
In fact a post war America, went through a period of unprecedented prosperity.
Bought by Roosevelt and the after effects of the new deal.
Keynesian economics, which continue to prosper most socialist democracies.
And progressively wound back over more recent years, by the rich and or extreme right idealogs.
Who'se only real talent appears to be able to blame socialists and or socialist policies for every problem.
I mean, they are currently very hard at work trying to blame President Obama for the economic crisis created by the Bush administration; and indeed continually compounded by very belligerent republican intransigence in both houses?
I mean, they seem so addicted to a very perverse form of favouritism, they appear to want to keep their privatised health system, which currently gouges more than 13% out of the GNP, when they could vastly improve their health system with socialism/Keynesian economics, and an entirely universal health care system, which would arguably reduce health costs to around 8% of the GDP.
They proudly trumpet a bill of irrevocable rights. which starts with equality.
Unfortunately, that so-called equality exists in name only, in modern, less than democratic America, and or the seemingly moribund minds of the born to rule religious right and their equally zealous tea party acolytes? Rhrosty.

The author states "The U.S. Constitution portends such absolutism. Freedom is a self-evident truth. All men are already equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".

This is wrong. The phrases are not from Constitution, but from the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, which says (in part):

"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."

I suggest that if criticism is directed towards the U.S., the critic might ensure that attributions to that nation's founding documents are accurate. Perhaps the editor could have assisted.