| The Grand "Sez Who?" - "Either God exists or He does not, but if He does not, nothing and no one else can take His place..." |
- And what of Universal Human Rights?
- This is the twofold conviction that every human being has inherent dignity and that it is obligatory that we order our lives in accordance with this fact.
- Where do they come from?
- God: but not everyone believes in God some say.
- Nature: but Nature thrives on violence and predation, survival of the fittest.
- Us: but if we create rights, what if we changed out minds about YOUR rights?
- Their very value comes from the ability of minorities to assert them against
majorities. So they must not be created, but discovered to have any permanent
value.
- While it's clear there is a religious ground, it's far from clear that there is any other.
- If there is no God, moral laws are arbitrary. Our inability to ground them
successfully outside of God should be a big CLUE If the Biblical account
explains out moral sense, why do we reject it?
- If a premise ('There is no God') leads to conclusions you know aren't true ('Napalming babies is culturally relative.') then you need to change the premise!
