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Are human rights and religion compatible?
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eligious traditions have in fact undergone the most radical transformation in recent times to adapt to our altered world, giving rise to multiple and marginal voices. Many argue that modern notions of egalitarianism and justice are already present in their scriptures and that it is in fact politics
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  • eligious traditions have in fact undergone the most radical transformation in recent times to adapt to our altered world, giving rise to multiple and marginal voices. Many argue that modern notions of egalitarianism and justice are already present in their scriptures and that it is in fact politics and patriarchy that have denied people full dignit...
  • If the language of human rights appears culturally modern, religious language, often pointing to a world beyond the earthly struggle for rights,
  • Others claim that a person’s duty is first and foremost to the eternal laws of God, whereas modern human rights are culturally relative ideas that only pretend to be universally valid
  • Liberalism acknowledges and celebrates individual choice because it recognizes the individual over the collective
  • most Western societies the political language is that of liberalism

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