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God-given rights are as weak and fragile as they come. They're downright dangerous. God-given rights can be taken away by those claiming to speak for god, human rights cannot. Human rights are absolute and universal; not susceptible to religious whim and fancy. https://twitter.com/realADRobles/status/1339598199611301896
Simply by virtue of being human—because you were born—you have certain inherent, inalienable rights.
God-given rights depend on those who claim to know and interpret God’s will. Is Muhammad’s, Martin Luther’s, or Martin Luther King Jr.’s interpretation of God’s will is correct?
God-given rights depend on those who claim to know and interpret God’s will. Is Muhammad’s, Martin Luther’s, or Martin Luther King Jr.’s interpretation of God’s will is correct?
God-given rights depend on geography. Do you live in Indiana, India, or Iran? They are not universal or transcendent.
To be clear, the very idea of "god-given rights" is a dangerous one. I've written a lot about this, both in The Founding Myth and here: https://religionnews.com/2017/12/15/the-bill-of-rights-thomas-jefferson-and-the-danger-of-god-given-rights/
To be clear, the very idea of "god-given rights" is a dangerous one. I've written a lot about this, both in The Founding Myth and here: https://religionnews.com/2017/12/15/the-bill-of-rights-thomas-jefferson-and-the-danger-of-god-given-rights/
At the risk of repeating myself yet again and people ignoring the whole argument here as they did in the thread, preferring instead to focus on one of the tweets... here's bit more elaboration from The Founding Myth:
And one more, the lead in to the passage above and what I inelegantly paraphrased in the thread, when I should have just screenshotted it from the beginning. https://twitter.com/AndrewLSeidel/status/1339784965421207552?s=19
