RE: What Human Rights?
July 17, 2015 at 2:04 am
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2015 at 2:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
"If god didn't exist I wouldn't know right from wrong"
"If god didn't exist I wouldn't believe in human rights"
"If god didn't exist, I wouldn't believe that a human life could have dignity"
If god didn't exist, you'd be a pretty shitty person...by both of our standards, huh? Again, is this really what you want me to accept as truth, about you? You seem to think I'm questioning the honesty of your belief......I'm questioning your knowledge of self. The article and the doctrine invoked dignity as a source. You believe in dignity. If all that changed about your beliefs tommorow where the belief in god, let me repeat, you woke up and continued believing in absolutely everything that you already do...except that one thing, that god........you would still believe in dignity - and so, you would be able to use -precisely the same- justification for your belief in human rights as an atheist....that you do now, as a catholic (not that I'd buy for a minute you'd ever looked this up before tonight). Can you see why I doubt that your falling away from the faith would lead to you changing your acceptance of human rights?
"If god didn't exist I wouldn't believe in human rights"
"If god didn't exist, I wouldn't believe that a human life could have dignity"
If god didn't exist, you'd be a pretty shitty person...by both of our standards, huh? Again, is this really what you want me to accept as truth, about you? You seem to think I'm questioning the honesty of your belief......I'm questioning your knowledge of self. The article and the doctrine invoked dignity as a source. You believe in dignity. If all that changed about your beliefs tommorow where the belief in god, let me repeat, you woke up and continued believing in absolutely everything that you already do...except that one thing, that god........you would still believe in dignity - and so, you would be able to use -precisely the same- justification for your belief in human rights as an atheist....that you do now, as a catholic (not that I'd buy for a minute you'd ever looked this up before tonight). Can you see why I doubt that your falling away from the faith would lead to you changing your acceptance of human rights?
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