The concept of “rights” is foreign to the Christian faith. Life is to be protected and nurtured not because anybody has a right to it but simply because God gives it and we, as human beings made in His image, are stewards of it. We are commanded to offer that gift up to God in Thanksgiving so that it might be sanctified so that God may commune with His creation and His creation with Him. We are not nor can we be autnomous.
“Rights” always leads to the tryannical state deciding whose rights are to be upheld by the coercive power of the state and who is to be suppressed, even killed.
Rights historically have led to Christian martyrs.
Rather than giving a language to defend anything it subsumes us into the spirit of the age-nihilism.
If the reviewer is correct.
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