(July 16, 2015 at 8:51 am)ChadWooters Wrote: The idea of inalienable human rights is inconsistent with modern atheism. Period.
Actually - I fully agree with Chad on this one - If you don't believe in God, believing in universal human rights is inconsistent because the only excuse to claim there are these universal moral values everyone respects and desires is to justify it with an omnipotent being that granted us this morality and these rights. Without God, human rights can't exist, it doesn't naturally follow. What is a right or not changes with time. I gave the example of free speech
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you