You owe your rights to Christianity

What Christianity.taught to us and what the 18th Century copied by it.

Remember when I told you about the biggest lie in history: that Japan wouldn't have surrendered without the atomic bomb, when in reality it wanted to surrender before the atomic bomb, but America refused its surrender terms? Well, here's another great historical lie, even bigger than that.

Many think that human rights, freedom, and equality are modern inventions, born of the Enlightenment or the secular revolutions of the 18th century.
They taught us that reason freed us from religious "obscuratism".
But this is a very partial, if not entirely FALSE, view of history. The truth is that the tree of Western freedom has much deeper roots.

Just look at the pre-Christian world: in ancient Rome or Greece, as advanced as they were civilizations for their time, the individual had no value in and of himself.
You were only valuable based on your ability or strength. The weak, the slaves, the unwanted children, and the sick were discarded.
It was the law of the strongest. The idea that every human being had a "sacred" and inviolable dignity did not exist.

The true revolution, the one that changed human history forever, came with a theological concept: the Imago Dei.
Christianity introduced the idea that every single human being, from the king to the beggar, is created in the image and likeness of God.
For the first time in history, the individual acquired infinite value, not by concession of the state, but by divine and inviolable right.

When St. Paul wrote: "there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female", he was laying the foundations of universal equality.
And this was not a political idea; it was a fact entirely associated with FAITH.
But it had devastating political consequences for tyrants: if we are all children of the same Father, then no man can be the absolute master of another.

Even the Enlightenment, which often opposes faith, is actually a parasite of Christianity.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity are secularized Christian concepts.
Voltaire, Locke and modern thinkers did not invent these values ​​from scratch; they took them from the Gospel, but removed the sacred foundation. They wanted the fruit of the tree by trying to cut the roots. (Or, to quote Mark Twain, they were like farmers who wanted to harvest the fruit without plowing the fields).

But here lies the enormous problem we are experiencing today.
If you remove God from the equation, what are your rights based on?
On biology? Biology teaches that the strong eat the weak.
On the consensus of the majority? The majority can decide tomorrow to take away everything from you (as happened in the dictatorships of the 20th century).
Without a transcendent foundation, human rights remain opinions, not absolute truths.

Even the atheist philosopher Nietzsche admitted it: if "God is dead", then the Christian morality of compassion and equality also dies. (Perhaps he wasn't as atheist as he wanted us to believe; a wise man once told me that there's a bit of faith in every atheist and a bit of lack of faith in every believer.)
You cannot maintain Christian human dignity without God.
If man is merely accidental matter and not the "image of God", then his rights are merely concessions from the state. And what the state gives, the state can take away.

This is why defending Christian roots isn't backwardness, but the only guarantee of future freedom.
Only if rights are pre-political (that is, they come before the state and from above the state) are we truly free.
Christianity is the only barrier that prevents the powers that be from redefining what is "right" or "wrong" at will.

With this, I conclude my article, until next time. And remember, don't forget who the real enemy is.