No Alternatives

Deuteronomy 32:3-4

"I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Oh, praise the greatness of our God! He is the Rock, His works are perfect, and all His ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and Justice is He."

German sociologist Jürgen Habermas wrote in 1999: "For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals of freedom and a collective life in solidarity, the autonomous conduct of life and emancipation, the individual morality of conscience, human rights and democracy, is the direct legacy of the Judaic ethic of justice and the Christian ethic of love. This legacy, substantially unchanged, has been the object of a continual critical reappropriation and reinterpretation. Up to this very day there is no alternative to it. And in light of the current challenges of a post-national constellation, we must draw sustenance now, as in the past, from this substance. Everything else is idle postmodern talk." People nowadays talk so much about human rights, but when they speak coming from a non-theistic (esp naturalistic materialistic) perspective, it becomes a concept firmly planted in midair. The idea of intrinsic worth of humanity, assumed only, but never justified in constitutions and "universal" declarations, which affirms humanity as having endowed with intrinsic moral worth and therefore possesses inherent human rights, has its necessarily transcendent (supernatural) foundation in the "Imago Dei" (Genesis 1:26-27, 5:1-2, 9:6, Rom 8:29, 2 Cor 3:18, Col 3:10) — humanity having been created in the image of God. What constitutes inherent rights is continuously subject to discourse, but it is ultimately meaningless "idle talk" without its necessary foundation in a personal Creator.

Psalms 8:4-6

"What is man that You are mindful of him, the son of man that You care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honour. You made him ruler over the works of Your hands; you put everything under his feet…"

~30.10.2015