What Human Rights?

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I fail to see how the existence of the Abrahamic god ensures human rights. Sure, believers speak of our being imbued with dignity because we were created in their god's image and as such having a spark of the divine "breathed" into us or some such thing. But these are the same people who will use similes such as the potter and the potter's clay to talk about how our lives aren't our own at all, that we are in fact their god's possessions to be dealt with as he sees fit. For all their talk about Yahweh's nature being unchanging, none have ever convinced me that they don't worship a being who, by its nature, can't be capricious in the extreme. It seems the Biblical god, particularly in the OT, has no problem trampling the rights and dignity of people. (Yeah, yeah, I know -- they were wicked and had it coming 'cause the Biblical authors said so. Whatever.)