The Importance Of Human Rights Without God

When people see the world in different way we can learn truths from different perspectives. I once heard an analogy of a mountain and perspectives of Christianity. The mountain symbolizes Christianity. It is very big and it is hard to see all of it. Every person has a different role. Some go inside the mountain and others fly above and take pictures in a helicopter. They are all seeing parts of the mountain so we need to talk to each other so we can learn about other parts of the mountain. If we refuse to look at other perspectives we will only see one small part of the mountain and will miss out on the greatness of the big

In the Bible, the book of Hebrews states, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen” (King James Bible, Hebrews. 11.1).The spiritual tones of “things hoped for”, plays a significant role throughout Olaudah Equiano autobiography, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano OR, Gustavus Vassa, The African”. His narrative was originally published in 1789 and went through a series of revisions throughout his lifetime, finally becoming a bestseller. Equiano’s treasured writings, depicts his personal accounts from childhood, holding the status of an African aristocrat in Benin West Africa, to being kidnapped and forced into slavery in the infamous Middle Passage slave trade. While slavery attempts to divest Equiano of his hope for freedom, his narrative asserts that spirituality and literary works produce its own liberty and identity in the world.

When America adopted the term Freedom, as far back as the country’s founding. To how we as a nation obtained freedom and the patriots who had to fight several wars in order to continue to possess it. As citizens and members of a society, we are extremely fortunate to have several different types of freedoms. Although this is a good thing in some cases, there comes to a point where too much freedom can be dangerous because there would essentially be no protection for the people. To prevent this from happening, we give up particular freedoms and swap it for safety. The freedoms that are most important to me are religion, economic, education, and gun control. With that being said, there should be the same “restriction” on each of the freedoms, no acts of violence will be condoned.

The act of defining religion has been a contentious issue in a wide variety of situations, particularly in the United States. The US is a nation that prides itself on religious inclusivity and freedom. There are consequences to this belief and tenant. Through the social, legal and moral structures of the United States, defining religion has become imperative. In The Impossibility of Religious Freedom, Winifred Sullivan outlines the legal implications of defining religion in the United States. In order for religious freedom to be protected by the American state, religion must be clearly defined. As a result, religious theory must be used to maintain some semblance of religious freedom in the United States. Likewise, Josh Dubler’s Down in

On the other more extreme side of things, religious persecution can be extremely fatal, leading to loss of life over differing beliefs and attitudes. Just look at today’s political climate. ISIS, an extremist radical group known for being religiously charged, takes credit for virtually every act of mass violence across the world. This has caused people all over the world to be afraid of Muslims even though their religion really has nothing to do with these acts of violence. People have made the religion out to be the problem when that isn’t the issue.

The most common, (one of the most common) yet the most horrifying, displays of social injustices upon religions are genocides. During the 20th century, there have been many mass murders of people groups. Most were motivated to a significant degree by religious beliefs. A genocide that had a global effect was Adolf Hitler and the Nazi’s organized extermination of about 11 million people including 6 million

“A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” - Albert Einstein. While Albert Einstein is most certainly correct about the idea of religion not being a necessity for an individual or a society as a whole, religion still has a large influence over society whether it is necessary or not. And with the large influence of religion comes the large importance of religion.

Communion refers to an individuals desire to relate, cooperate, and merge with others. People who are communion oriented find fulfillment in their

Throughout history we can see many atrocities justified because of religion. The witch hunt of the 1600’s is a good example of how people can abuse and manipulate religion. Killing of innocent woman for the believe that they may witches is absurd. In those time fear of witches was really big that it seems that anybody could be one. While religion has brought us a lot of good things at the same time it has brought many horrible things with it. The Roman perception of Christians was another atrocities and our history has so much bloodshed for those who didn't deserve to die.

It is often stated throughout this great country that we have a right to religious freedoms. Are these freedoms only available if they fit inside a certain box or guidelines? Often times in our country today we see individuals who are constantly claiming their right to religious freedoms. And often times they are denied those freedoms by the interpretation of various laws. The First Amendment of the United States of America Constitution clearly gives us our religious freedom above and beyond all created laws. This leads to the fact that all laws should abide by the First Amendment.

Religious rights for all people in the US are the same. “The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment gives you the right to worship or not as you choose. The government can't penalize you because of your religious beliefs.”() Our founding fathers believed that it is important to keep region out of government so they made the first amendment, the guaranteed separation of church and state. Keeping religion out of the government will keep religious conflict away from the US. The founding fathers knew that religious distributes have caused many people to turn on each other, so now everyone is the US has their right to practice any religion of their choice.

Hostility, oppression, and persecution of Christians are at an all-time high, yet it is going unnoticed globally and even in our own country America. Studies have shown by the Italian-based center for Studies on New Religions report that Christians are the most persecuted faith in the world. These heinous acts against Christians go untouched. It is important to recognize global persecution outside the United States and the effects of it in our own country. Many people will argue that right wing conservative Christians are over-reaching and being overdramatic about our Christian rights in a secular nation. The question I pose to the audience is, would this be tolerated if it were any other religion but Christianity? The rights and morals that

Biblically speaking, it is correct that religious freedom and a democratic system of government is not mentioned in the Bible. However, the principles of freedom were inspired by the Biblical values of free will, individual responsibility, moral conduct, and liberty. It is clear that the Founding Fathers believed in the value of Biblical principles guiding the nation and its laws.

Remember the killing and torture that the Jews had faced due to the discrimination that Hitler had persuaded them to have? Religious discrimination is real and still around. Why does it have to take the loss of numerous lives to occur before people realize that it’s around and that we must do something to end it? Numerous amounts of religions are being blamed and treated terribly due to the idea in people’s minds that they are not good people. Understandably, when hearing that a religious group is associated with terrible actions, you can’t help, but assume that all of them are bad. Religion is meant to bring peace and harmony among people and be able to teach one another’s culture, not bring hate and create inequality just because your beliefs are different. It’s like having a desire to kill your neighbor because unlike your carnivorous self, they’re vegetarians. Now that may sound extreme because we’re talking about food, not a religion. But how come we are able to respect each other’s views on what to eat, and not religion? How come people can convince other people to be vegetarian, but when people teach about their religion, all of a sudden people call foul? I mean, people’s beliefs are like food choices, it pertains to them not you. Who are you to say that their beliefs are wrong, or they’re bad people because of their beliefs? Remember, religion is meant to bring harmony, not chaos. If a person creates chaos, that’s their character, not their religion's

It is very hard to talk about human rights since it is such a broad, personal and difficult topic. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights) Human rights are fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being and which are inherent in all human beings regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin or any other status. From a Christian standpoint I believe that our only right is to be tormented for our sinful nature as human beings. Human rights from a Christian world view are rights that were given to us for being created in the image of God. From this standpoint, the only rights that we have is the right to reproduce, the right to