Frank wrote on Sep 22
nd, 2023 at 9:34am:
God created man in his own image - and each culture, in turn, creates its god in its own image. The Christian God created man with freedom without distinction, Allah created slaves, Yahweh created a chosen people with laws applicable only to them.
Frank, I already disposed of your 'Rights emanate from Jesus Christ' theory. As graps would say, we can "safely" say Jesus was a man, because we can observe:
1. all men forever have been seeking "god".
2. men have turned mortals into gods at least until Roman times...as Josephus wryly observed; "if indeed he (Christ) was a man" ....
Quote:In traditional Greek and Roman thought, only the wealthy and powerful had rights in society. That’s how Nature intended it.
An opinion?
(quick google)
A right for Aristotle is essentially a just claim that a person has against other members of the same community, and a natural right is a just claim based in natureBut as I said, nature ensures the survival of life in the aggregate, not the lives of individual creatures - by observation; there are no "individual Rights" in nature's jungle, "rights' (, more correctly, desires) are the creation of men's cortex brains seeking "fairness".
Quote:But by the end of the fourth century, people like Basil and other Christian intellectuals were arguing that everyone has rights, including, and perhaps especially, the poor. That’s how God intended it.
An unrealized "intention"? The poor are still dying prematurely....
Quote:The claim that all human beings have rights, regardless of birth, status, or creed, didn’t pop out of nowhere during the 18th-century Enlightenment. Its roots are biblical, and it was Christian thinkers from Basil onwards that shaped the Western concept of “human rights”.
I think your rejection of the Buddha, Confucius and Aristotle, thinkers who predated Christ, is problematic.
I think the foggy, manic chaos in your head is problematic. You do not understand even basic concepts, have no sense of history or the development of ideas.