Thursday, June 7, 2007

Universal Human Rights as religious principle

Could have been written by a baha'i...but no...

"The example of the Baha'i faith is one way to discredit the idea that universal human rights are in fundamental conflict with the belief in a supreme being. Baha'is have actively used the tools of the United Nations to try to protect their followers from being persecuted for their beliefs. Bahai's have not only benefited from the machinery of human rights, but advocate universal human rights as a point of religious principle. The principle could be extended to other faiths. After all if you believe that a supreme being created the universe, then surely the universal cannot be in conflict with its creator?"

Found on The Guardian thanks to Marco...impressive!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's worth knowing that Dan Wheatley, who is Government Relations Officer in the UK National Spiritual Assembly's Office of External Affairs, contributed an excellent essay to the Foreign Policy Centre's book of essays, Faith and Foreign Policy, which is why Alex Bigham mentions the Faith in his piece in Comment is Free.

Phillipe Copeland said...

This is super cool. Thanks.

SAM said...

Dear bahá'í friend,

I am writing all bahá'í bloggers to invite you to participate in a campaign I am organizing on December 10th, International Human Rights' Day.

Please, go to www.phoenixadaeternum.blogspot.com and see how you could, in case you want, be a member of this network that holds for one cause: the cause of humanity, the cause of Human Rights.

Thank you,

Sam