{"id":253,"date":"2017-03-15T17:08:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T17:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macyplace.com\/tom\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2017-03-15T17:08:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T17:08:33","slug":"human-rights-only-if-god-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/15\/human-rights-only-if-god-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights? Only If God Exists&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just came across a discussion of human rights and belief in god. Nietzsche and others have said that if God is dead, any and all morality of love and human rights is baseless. Other philosophers have said that, if a moral argument is to be valid, it must be based on something outside the utility of the argument itself.<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s to say the weak should not be gobbled up by the strong? That\u2019s the way it is in nature; that\u2019s the reality of life\u2026except in the minds of human beings. In fact, not all cultures even hold to the same beliefs concerning human rights.<\/p>\n<p>What grounds do you have to argue that each individual has inherent rights? It can only come from a belief in a God of peace, justice, and love and that the world is fallen, broken, and needs to be redeemed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SufferingAnimals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-252\" src=\"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SufferingAnimals-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"SufferingAnimals\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SufferingAnimals-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SufferingAnimals.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just came across a discussion of human rights and belief in god. Nietzsche and others have said that if God is dead, any and all morality of love and human rights is baseless. Other philosophers have said that, if a moral argument is to be valid, it must be based on something outside the utility &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/15\/human-rights-only-if-god-exists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Human Rights? Only If God Exists&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,104],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1871themissionaries","tag-human-rights","tag-suffering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}