Pickle vs a Christian on rights.
Posted on: September 28, 2020 at 11:09:58 CT
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Christian: Our rights come from God.
Pickle: No, they don't.
As I stated in a previous post, the way a culture views rights is impacted by the cosmology, theology and anthropology of that culture. Change one or more of these elements and the view of rights drastically changes. What one culture views can be abhorrent to another culture.
The Declaration of Independence declared these rights self evident. They are to those who came from a Judeo-Christian cultural background. But if you are a Hindu or Buddhist from the East, they are not self-evident as their views on cosmology, theology and anthropology are far different.
So a Western Christian will claim rights come from God. Specifically, the Judeo-Christian God. And it makes perfect sense to them. That is their view on those three previously mentioned elements.
Pickle will say, no that is not true. God is not real. So, the Bible cannot be inspired by God.
What does that leave (from an atheist perspective)? The Judeo-Christian God was a product of the mind of humans. The Bible, thus is a product of the mind of humans.
So even if he will acknowledge the influence of Judeo-Christian thought on the Western world, to him, it does not change that righta come from the nature of man as a species capable of reason.
You may disagree with his premise (there is no Creator God), but it still follows a logically valid argument.
Edited by TigerMatt at 11:11:08 on 09/28/20