1-4-1 - Human Rights Flashcards
Three reasons as to why Christians support human rights
Certain rights mirror the Ten Commandments/will of God, Jesus showing agape, Golden Rule
human rights with link to abortion
right to life, right to liberty, right to be recognized as a person before the law
human rights with links to death penalty
right to life, right to appeal a conviction
human right with links to euthanasia
‘covenant forbids torture and inhuman or degrading treatment’
human right with link to gay rights
‘to choose freely who they will marry’
human rights can be suspended for the good of society - true or false
true
Why would Christians argue for a suspension of human rights
If a right contradicts the Bible or word of God
John Locke’s main three natural rights
life, liberty, and property
what are natural rights
the belief that human beings are born with built-in rights
Jeremy Bentham natural rights quote
‘nonsense upon stilts’
Two human high profile human rights activists
Desmond Tutu and Eleanor Roosevelt
What did Eleanor Roosevelt do for human rights?
Chair of the UN Human Rights Commission, driving force in the creation of Human Rights in 1948
What did Desmond Tutu do for human rights?
Worked to remove the South African apartheid, was Archbishop of Cape Town and Johannesburg
William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury’s quote on Christian view of human rights
‘There can be no Rights of Man except on the basis of faith in God’.
Genesis 1:27, imago dei quote
‘So God created man in His own image’
