"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Sound familiar?
It is from the Declaration of Independence.
Clearly, the Founding Fathers were aware that "human rights" could only be grounded in the reality of some higher authority whom they called "their Creator". The majority assumed this creator had mandated these things for His creation and revealed it in the Bible.
We can be free of this Christian "human rights" nonsense if we will only think logically!
It is clear that unless a higher authority/creator tells us what is true, good, right, etc. in some absolute/concrete way, such as in a written document like the Bible, then "human rights" is nothing more than one or more persons' opinion of what ought to be in a world without oughts!
If we reject the notion of a creator/God we are free from "human rights".
Let me give a practical example -
Suppose ten people find themselves stuck on an island cut off from all other people, governments and laws. For the sake of argument, five are adult men, two are adult women and three are children age 9-11 (two girls and one boy).
Even though there is no moral basis for a majority vote for making decisions (evolution would not account for it), it is decided that they will vote to decide how things are to be run on the island. The five men decide they want the others to be their salves, in even the most heinous/unspeakable ways, so they convince one of the children to vote with them and the majority's will becomes law on the island.
The women and children now find they have been voted into slavery by the majority. Removed from other laws/governments that dictate behavior and punish lawbreakers, can these slaves make any claim of their "human rights" being violated?
Most would say pedophilia is obviously wrong everywhere all the time, but lets be consistent atheists and acknowledge all morall standards are subjective and simply based on the standards particular societies have chosen. Therefore, slavery or pedophelia are simply the acceptable moral standard this society has voted into law.
This is even being generous, because in reality the will of any two of the castaways might just as well dictate accepted morality for this small society, if they are strong enough to force their will on the others. As I alluded to earlier, even voting can't be called "right" unless it is anchored in some higher authority/creator.
It is true that these kinds of things have happened many times throughout history and have often been called evil or even atrocities, but now we see that even the condemning of these actions is baseless when God is rejected.
"Human rights" as a concept doesn't even make sense if we (humans) are simply products of time and random chance on matter!
It is clear the Founding Fathers knew the consequences of a godless society and wrote the founding documents of our nation based on their strong religious (mostly Christian) beliefs, but now we can be free by following atheism to it's logical end and get in the process -
A world without any basis for "human rights"!
If you end up a slave in the process - I guess you can't complain, accept to time and chance acting on matter!
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