How do We Climb Rights Mountain?

[@ProfYaffle]

Brilliant. Thank you

[@prestonmccoy7097]

Tell em’. Tell em’. You don’t have to believe in God or the Gospels, but what skeptics cannot get away from is our Christian past. YOUR Christian past! Skeptics may not like it, even hate it, but you can’t escape the influence it’s had in your conscious and even unconscious beliefs or ethics. Just know the well you’ve drunk from.

[@thomasheuer1916]

Simpson's episode was a fantastic analogy.

[@HearGodsWord]

Sounds like a few more people need to read The Air We Breathe, by Glen Scrivener 😉

[@siowat7911]

Whilst you may fire the sherpas, whatever you do don't fire the Spirit. Deconstruction of faith is one thing, loss of faith is much more serious.

[@danielklassen1513]

Did you just combine three of my interests in one video? Jesus, apologetics, and Simpsons (seasons 1 to 9)? So good! How about some more Simpsons content? Homer the Heretic, Lisa the Iconoclast, lots of episodes can be springboards for theology and apologetics discussions.

[@SpeakLifeMedia]

Sounds… sacrilicious!

[@kbeetles]

Human rights=secularised Christology - which is impossible because Christ is divine, not secular....Thanks for your thoughts on this topic, you're right on target!

[@simonpajger1331]

26:00 "It is just arbitrary?" 26:20 "Christians have a good answer, God is the supreme moral ARBITER." Sooo, your answer is that Christian morality is arbitrary in the most literal meaning? If moral realism is true (therefore morality refers to something, that is really out there, like gravity or math), then we do not need moral arbiter. Or is there any arbiter that judges, whether gravity exists? (BTW I am Christian, and I agree, that Christianity did the most of the climbing. I just cringe, when Christians claim their arbitrary morality is not only objective, but only possible objective, which is in my opinion, a very nonsensical assertion).

[@sergiosatelite467]

It’s a big shame Columbus and our first ancestors hadn’t caught up yet to all these Christian truths. A little weird that many of these eternal concepts only began to be put into practice in Civitas Terrenas AFTER the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution fragmented the Church and secular institutions and interests began to emerge. But, hey, I don’t see how this interpretation could be a highly sophisticated piece of a rhetorical apologetics - very synthetic 👍- which might rely on a ‘somewhat’ twisted interpretation of history, no, I couldn’t say that - despite all the massive, and clear evidence that exept in Neo-Platonic Heaven, none of these “rights” came about without heavy resistance from the church(es) - no, wouldn’t say that: if Harbermas said it, I believe it. (Really impressed by the conviction with which these fascinating cultural-ontological arguments are performed.)

[@JP-rf8rr]

I actually think it's the other way around. It's only after the enlightenment and scientific revolution that much of what we associate with the dark ages emerge. Absolute monarchical authoritarianism, relativizing the concept of human value and rights, skepticism of human reason, and actual worst treatment of women. Columbus killed a lot of people and enslaved them, but unlike those who followed him, he actually was somewhat ashamed or at least embarresed by this fact. It was taken for granted by western Europe at the time that this is wrong and the royal family were actually upset with thus result which is unique compared to empires outside of Christindom at the time. That's why Columbus' oppents were eager to use this info to hurt his standing. It's also why the idea that there are sub human beings only emerged in Christindom when the new world showed the potential for unimaginable profits. And even then it was highly contested and debated, the empires were desperate to find justification for their treatment of the natives which again seems to be a problem mostly unique Christian empires. Honestly, I think this speaker could go further and trace the concept of rights to gregory of nyssa.

[@olgakarpushina492]

That is only true if you are historically illiterate.