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Global Rights - Coggle Diagram

- - - - God created man in his own image
        
        divine image= rational, moral and spiritual qualities that separate us from animals & relate us to God
        
        can learn about God from evangelists & teachers
        
        know, love and serve him
        
        live in conscious, humble dependance on him
        
        understand his will
        
        obey his commands
        
        rights e.g. practise & propagate religion come under first rubric of our relationship to God
      - Male and Female he created them
        
        God is a social being
        
        human freedoms e.g. sanctity of sex, marriage & family, right to peaceful assembly come under 2nd rubric of our relationship to each other
      - God blessed them and said "... fill the earth and subdue it"
        
        given us dominion- subdue & cultivate earth and rule its creatures
        
        rights to work, rest, food clothing etc... under 3rd rubric of our relationship to the earth
      - God redeemed us at great personal cost- incarnation & atonement of his son
      - reinforces sense of human worth that creation already given us
      - values depends on God's view of us & relationship to us
      - human rights aren't unlimited rights- limited to what's compatible with being human person God has created us to be
      - true freedom found in being ourselves
      - no situation in which is possible to forget the dignity of human beings by creation & their consequent right to respect
      - e.g. criminals may be deprived of their freedom but the right to incarcerate does not imply right to treat prisoners inhumanly in other ways
    - - human rights not always mean equal rights
      - rights God gave to all human beings equally, easily decended into my rights on which I must insist irrespective of the rights others or the common good
      - when rights are in conflict that we are presented with difficult ethical dilemma
        
        tensions between rights of mother & unborn child
      - weak & vulnerable proected by Mosaic Law
      - Moses-"... The Lord your God is God of gods anf Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, the terrible God, who shows no partiality"
      - NT- God is impartial judge, doesn't regard external appearances or circumstances, shows no favouritism, whatever social or racial background
      - Jesus neither deferred to the rich and powerful, nor despised the poor & weak, but gave equal respect to all, whatever social status
    - - discussion of human rights- one person asserting their rights against another person
      - encourages selfishness
      - overlooks fact humans have responsibilities & duties
      - clarification of relationship between rights & responsibilites
      - bibles says much on defending others rights, but little on defending our own
        
        emphasises our responsibilities, not our rights
      - are to love God & our neighbour so Bible seems to contain Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities
        
        must secure other people's rights even at the expense of our own
      - Seen in life and example of Jesus
        
        Paul says- though in nature God, Jesus took nature of a servant
        
        throughout his life, was victim of abuses of human rights
        
        became prisoner of conscience, refusing to compromise in order to secure his release
        
        throughout ordeal declined to defend or demand his rights, in order that by his self-sacrifice he might serve ours
- - - - believe ritual purifies women
      - to limit sexual pleasure- increases chances of the women staying faithful
        
        but what about the men?
      - tradition
      - women who don't get it may be ostracised by society
    - - equivalent to torture (Article 2 UDHR)
      - they're vulnerable, defenceless children
      - no consent
      - repercussions e.g. infection, difficulty in childbirth; sexual issues
- - - - however, also very harmful as it prevents people from seeing the class structure and oppression around them and prevents people from rising up in revolution