I am raised catholic and go to church regularly. Universal human rights do not come from Christianity alone. If you take the tree example, let's make a mix of citrus, lemon, and orange. If you say it's just orange that's hiding the truth and makes citrus and lemon people understandable angry :) if you then say it's lemon-orange tradition, the citrus people get angry and the lemon people might feel alienated. Just saying.
I recommend Nathan the Wise from Lessing for a read.
Holland was raised in the Christian church by his devout Anglican mother ...
wikipedia
Citation from Holland :
"I am not Greek or Roman at all, but thoroughly and proudly Christian"
So he does not believe in God, yet he defines himself as Christian :)
I said Christian author, no contradiction there.
I also recommend Superior from Angela Saini as a read.
You don't need God to believe in Universal Human Rights and Ethics. Seeing the recent abuse scandals, in the catholic church I find organized religion is a bigger problem ...
We disagree fundamentally. Still I appreciate that you take the time to reply.
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