<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Jubilee Centre - Blog]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/jubilee/blogs.php</link><description><![CDATA[Comments on the blog: Human Rights - A Christian Conception?]]></description><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:54:48 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[John]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/181/human_rights_a_christian_conception#comment1135</link><description><![CDATA[Please check out this reference which gives a truly universal Heart-based Understanding of where the world is at, how we got to here, and what we need to do to righten the situation.

http://www.ispeace723.org/anthroposphere2.html ]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/181/human_rights_a_christian_conception#comment1135</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:54:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anton Garrett]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/181/human_rights_a_christian_conception#comment1128</link><description><![CDATA[To Michael Brueck: I agree, on Christian grounds, that all humans should treat others with dignity, respect and love (agape). But I don't think that that implies we all have 'rights' to be treated well by others; rather it means we all have responsibilities to treat others well. That is the way God phrased the covenant which Israel accepted. It puts the onus on you to behave well, rather than to whine when you think others have treated you badly - a most unattractive but increasingly common sight in our rights-oriented culture.
]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/181/human_rights_a_christian_conception#comment1128</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:25:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Brueck]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/181/human_rights_a_christian_conception#comment1124</link><description><![CDATA[I am more than a little disturbed by the suggestion that the commitment to universal human rights is somehow not 'Christian'.  God the Creator requires of us justice and mercy and all actions to this end reflect something of his nature.  Declarations of human rights reflect our need to live for a fallen world and in the shadow of recent human history. ]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/181/human_rights_a_christian_conception#comment1124</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:00:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anton Garrett]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/181/human_rights_a_christian_conception#comment1123</link><description><![CDATA[I do not agree with John Stott. The Bible is about God's rights and human wrongs. Where is the 'Bill of Rights' that God has supposedly given man? The only ones I read in scripture are the right not to have another Flood, and stability of the earth-sun relationship (day and night and the seasons).

God's covenant with ancient Israel is not phrased on the language of rights; they simply have a contract and a relationship.

As for the American Fathers, they held those truths to be self-evident for white people only...
]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/181/human_rights_a_christian_conception#comment1123</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:52:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jonathan B]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/181/human_rights_a_christian_conception#comment1121</link><description><![CDATA[(1) If we want to talk about 'human rights' we must have a clear sense of what it means to be human. The Bible carefully explains what it means for us to be human and made in the image of God (e.g. dominion exercised under God) and so discussion of 'rights' should take place within that context.
(2) We need to recognise that 'rights' talk is a comparatively recent philosophical development. Aristotle and co had no conception of modern 'rights'. This raises the question of whether we really need rights talk to make people the object of our moral concerns. Doesn't the Bible provide us with other categories that allow us to make other people the object of our moral concerns. Might these not be preferable to a discussion of 'rights'?]]></description><guid>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments/181/human_rights_a_christian_conception#comment1121</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:20:20 GMT</pubDate></item><atom:link href="http://www.jubilee-centre.org/comments.xml.php" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /></channel></rss>
