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== Daniel Philpott, professor of political science and peace studies at Notre Dame ==

=== Daniel Philpott, professor of political science and peace studies at Notre Dame ===

[[Daniel Philpott]], Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies and Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the [[University of Notre Dame]] wrote:

[[Daniel Philpott]], Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies and Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the [[University of Notre Dame]] wrote:

Just ask history’s most influential thinkers: [[God]] and human rights really do go together.<ref>Philpott, Daniel [Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame] (May 28, 2014). [https://www.openglobalrights.org/no-human-rights-without-god/ "No human rights without God"] Open Global Rights </ref>}}

Just ask history’s most influential thinkers: [[God]] and human rights really do go together.<ref>Philpott, Daniel [Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame] (May 28, 2014). [https://www.openglobalrights.org/no-human-rights-without-god/ "No human rights without God"] Open Global Rights </ref>}}

=== Premiere Christianity website on atheism and human rights ===

== Premiere Christianity website on atheism and human rights ==

See: [https://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2018/December-2018/Who-created-human-rights-and-why-it-s-a-problem-for-atheists Who created human rights? (and why it's a problem for atheists)]

See: [https://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2018/December-2018/Who-created-human-rights-and-why-it-s-a-problem-for-atheists Who created human rights? (and why it's a problem for atheists)]

This is why atheists face such a sharp dilemma. Only if the Christian story is true do humans have dignity and worth. And only on that basis can you talk meaningfully about rights and about responsibilities. Who created human rights? The one who created humans.<ref>[https://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2018/December-2018/Who-created-human-rights-and-why-it-s-a-problem-for-atheists Who created human rights? (and why it's a problem for atheists)]</ref>}}

This is why atheists face such a sharp dilemma. Only if the Christian story is true do humans have dignity and worth. And only on that basis can you talk meaningfully about rights and about responsibilities. Who created human rights? The one who created humans.<ref>[https://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2018/December-2018/Who-created-human-rights-and-why-it-s-a-problem-for-atheists Who created human rights? (and why it's a problem for atheists)]</ref>}}

=== The Gospel Coalition commentary on atheism and human rights ===

== The Gospel Coalition commentary on atheism and human rights ==

''See also:'' [[Atheism and morality]]

''See also:'' [[Atheism and morality]]

To be sure, many modern Westerners take universal benevolence and human rights to be self-evident moral truths. But, as Smith reminds us, these aren’t free-standing moral facts, ready to be discovered like scientific laws. Rather, they are historically contingent beliefs growing out of Judeo-Christian tradition. Someone who “believes in a naturalistic cosmos,” he acknowledges, “is perfectly entitled to believe in and act to promote universal benevolence and human rights, but only as an arbitrary, subjective, personal preference—not as a rational, compelling, universally binding fact and obligation”...<ref>[https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/atheist-overreach/ When Atheism Is Intellectually Weak] by Rebecca McLaughlin</ref>}}

To be sure, many modern Westerners take universal benevolence and human rights to be self-evident moral truths. But, as Smith reminds us, these aren’t free-standing moral facts, ready to be discovered like scientific laws. Rather, they are historically contingent beliefs growing out of Judeo-Christian tradition. Someone who “believes in a naturalistic cosmos,” he acknowledges, “is perfectly entitled to believe in and act to promote universal benevolence and human rights, but only as an arbitrary, subjective, personal preference—not as a rational, compelling, universally binding fact and obligation”...<ref>[https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/atheist-overreach/ When Atheism Is Intellectually Weak] by Rebecca McLaughlin</ref>}}

=== Pastor Nick Cady on atheism and human rights violations ===

== Pastor Nick Cady on atheism and human rights violations ==

*[https://nickcady.org/2016/09/16/atheism-and-human-rights-a-inherent-problem/ Atheism and Human Rights: An Inherent Problem]

*[https://nickcady.org/2016/09/16/atheism-and-human-rights-a-inherent-problem/ Atheism and Human Rights: An Inherent Problem]

=== Stand To Reason: Atheism and universal human rights ===

== Stand To Reason: Atheism and universal human rights ==

*[https://www.str.org/blog/atheism-and-universal-human-rights#.XI3LnShKg2w Stand To Reason: Atheism and universal human rights]

*[https://www.str.org/blog/atheism-and-universal-human-rights#.XI3LnShKg2w Stand To Reason: Atheism and universal human rights]