In an atheist perspective, humans don't have rights. After all, without God, where else would we have gotten our supposed "unalienable rights" from? Or did we somehow acquired them during evolution?

So I guess those who follow the American Constitution are suppose to believe in God or something.

Do we or don't we have unalienable rights? Argue well. The existence of God may depend on it.

Oh ... so, you're implying that it's okay to have slaves, slaughter people, and torture them.

Do you want to live in one hell of a world like that?

i understand these concepts from believer of God.

but really, no one wants to live like in the old time.

First of all, just to clarify, I am not implying anything.

But for the sake of discussion, I'm going to try to argue for the opposition anyway.
Who ever said there was anything wrong with having slaves?



People did. And people don't want to live "like the old time." That's why people decided to not have slavery. (Of course, this is a general statement.)

Realizing that "this slave/person has rights that can't be ignored" isn't necessary. All it takes is "I don't like it when people keep whip other people, let's create a movement to end slavery."

boring.

Okay. If we dont have rights, dont you think slavery will continue?

So, the implication is that the only source of rights is Divinity?

The 'rights' which are 'inalienable' legally come from the law itself, and those who created the law. The ones which people consider ought to be inalienable are obviously variable depending on the individual.

And the idea that atheists don't believe in human rights is just, frankly, odd.

So people created inalienable rights (because people created the law), even though what's inalienable varies from person to person.

Well, people created the concept of an inalienable right, yes. That much would be obvious.

Ok, so you can have one place in the world say "these are inalienable human rights," and have another place in the world say "so-and-so are inalienable rights," and then have yet another place in the world say "you have no inalienable rights."

And so I guess it should be the illusion of inalienable rights, if inalienable rights are merely opinion, and are well, alienable. Essentially, there's no such thing as inalienable rights.


The Declaration of Independence must have been written with fail.

The "unalienable" rights are just arbitrary limits that mark the essential principles of a specific society. Other than that, there's not really much to add to the story, and those rights can be revoked by any person that has sufficient power to do so.

As Christians, God has marked what is inherently good or bad/right or wrong (unalienable rights). Ex: you hurt a person and you have to go to jail. This is wrong, under the justice of the law. Now try to prove this using matter of facts if you are an atheist.

The reality is that humans don't have rights. It's something we've developed and produced for a better standard of living, etc.

Prove what? That killing someone will get you sent to jail? All I have to do is go and get the lawbook. It's just a factualy truth. It has nothing to do with God, one way or the other.

Createblog's rules weren't written with the help of God the Almighty; and if they were, he surely isn't cited as a reference.

Rights were "Given" to us by our respective governments. Rights, which in theory, we should have had already.

Rights are almost a way of saying "This is what's left after we got rid of everything else we don't want you to do."

My somewhat basic thoughts on that, anyway..


- James.