RE: The reason religion is so powerful
June 17, 2021 at 6:07 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2021 at 6:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You're likely to find an expansive view of human rights at the heart of that, not entirely unlike the sentiment expressed in our ninth amendment. MA has all the rights. Whatever they are, listed or otherwise, with room to grow. People who indicate support for realist rights tend to believe we have a whole hell of alot of them, regardless of how much respect for them a person might enjoy at any given time or place.
But, ofc, only he can answer specifically for himself. It's an interesting quirk of religiosity (or of contemporary american religiosity, at least) that those who would describe their view as a right to life fail to hold life preserving or life creating or life affirming views elsewhere. Consistently.... inexplicably, even. Asserting a vast collection of non rights and ignoring plain and existing rights almost as if the debate was over some other thing. Some concept of things sacred and set apart and forbidden entriely divorced from human rights, and derived instead from declarative statements about the nature of the divine and it's relationship to man.
I'm sure a very religious person will be along shortly to tell me I'm wrong.
But, ofc, only he can answer specifically for himself. It's an interesting quirk of religiosity (or of contemporary american religiosity, at least) that those who would describe their view as a right to life fail to hold life preserving or life creating or life affirming views elsewhere. Consistently.... inexplicably, even. Asserting a vast collection of non rights and ignoring plain and existing rights almost as if the debate was over some other thing. Some concept of things sacred and set apart and forbidden entriely divorced from human rights, and derived instead from declarative statements about the nature of the divine and it's relationship to man.
I'm sure a very religious person will be along shortly to tell me I'm wrong.
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