RE: What Human Rights?
July 16, 2015 at 7:25 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 7:25 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(July 16, 2015 at 7:21 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(July 16, 2015 at 6:35 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Personally, being a Christian, I believe the "rights" you are talking about are inherent rights assigned to us by God.Did the Egyptian first-born have rights? How about the children of people God stated would be punished even up to the fourth generation? How about the children in Sodom and Gomorrah? How about all the people wiped out in the great flood in which Noah magically put all species of animal into a big boat?
If I did not believe these rights were assigned to us by someone higher, then I would not believe they were inherent human rights.
What I'm saying is that the idea of rights is not consistent with the Bible. Nor (afaik) did God ever state that there are inalienable rights that apply to all mankind.
Every human being has the inherent right to life. If those people were all real people, I would say they had just as much right to live as anyone else. I don't think they were real people or that these story are any more than parable. I have talked about this many times throughout this forum.
The idea of rights is consistent with my Catholic beliefs.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
