Evidence for Christianity

[Rev. Rye]

Futher you act as if his opinions are unwarranted, as if civilization for the last 2000+ years, over most all of the world, has condemend homosexuality. And western civilization has based all of its morality on the Bible up until about 50-100 years ago. Human rights developed within a Christian west, this is just a fact. Now perhaps it could have developed under different terms, but it did not!

Well you can believe what you want, if it makes you feel better. I have too much university shit to do to go searching for more sources for you right now.

Well, here's a few points.
[*]The Cyrus Cylinder has often been said to have been the first declaration of human rights, it was made six centuries before Christ, and almost a millennium before Christianity took hold of Europe.
[*]The Edicts of Ashoka also contain a significantly more detailed vision of human rights, and, once again, it was made a quarter of millennium before the birth of Christ in India by a Buddhist.
[*]Early in its history, Islam, for all the intolerance it has been spreading in the past century, was particularly progressive before its time.
[*]It took until about 1550 before there was any talk in Europe about the ideas of human rights, and even then, it was primarily about whether the Indians should be trusted to govern themselves.
[*]The idea of human rights only became popular in Europe around the time of the Enlightenment by people who were, I might add, often opposed by the Churches in their countries, and certainly came upon their ideas independently of their doctrines.

In short, you seriously need to read up on your Enlightenment thought.