Human Rights

Here is the place to pay attention to understanding human rights ma nusia. Human rights are the operationalization of respect for human dignity. Religions are suspicious can understand that. My religion took hundreds of years to arrive he now, gratefully, sincerely and confidently upholds high human rights. whereas religions should be the most staunch defenders of guarantees of rights human rights. Because human rights are none other than translate respect for human dignity into the common life of a nation.

the Catholic church was traumatized. The first to talk about inalienable rights was John Locke (1632-1704), a which is strictly anti-Catholic, then the first list of droit de l'homme et du citoyen (rights of people and citizens) is declared in the French war revolution with which the Catholic church was involved in some way traumatic because the French revolution became fiercely anti-Catholic and in the name of freedom, equality and brotherhood between ten thousand priests and nuns were executed. Catholic church then consider the understanding of human rights as a sign human rebellion who want autonomy against their creator. whereas these rights actually want to guarantee humans in its wholeness and dignity. new experiences terrible in the 20th century: communism and fascism, help the Catholic church to get out of the tunnel of her own pettiness. just before the great deliberation of the leaders church, bishops, called Vatican Council ii, 1962, pope Johannes XXiii expressed absolute support for rights human rights which are then completely justified in The Second Vatican Council officially supported religious freedom and human rights.

Human rights are wrongly understood as a human right to God. Of course humans don't have and do not need to have any rights to the creator. but, on the contrary, deep human rights religious language can be understood as divine law, as God expressly orders how humans are that god's creation That special must be treated and how humans obliged not to be treated. Precisely because we obey Allah, we respect humans in their entirety, so we respect human rights. then a person's faith is only complete if he at the same time respects the human rights of all other people.

in Indonesia human rights still exist also suspected of being a train of reasoning and individualism. indeed, among human rights there are rights of freedom championed by liberalism me, as is the right not to arbitrarily killed, freedom from torture, freedom of movement, but apart from that there are democratic human rights, human rights to legal guarantees, social rights and human rights collective. 

Take human rights as a sign  individualism is prejudice — a prejudice that is frequent dishonest — the prejudices of the ruling elite who feel threatened if the little people are empowered. Guarantee of  uman rights is a sign of the nation's solidarity with its members the weakest, those who cannot resist, who can be shifted, evicted, beaten, detained and killed just like that — but with Ensuring that their human rights are respected without exception, the community proves that they are lider with them.

So human rights are not liberalism or individualism, but on the contrary, evidence of the solidarity of a society with the citizens who are the weakest. let's be honest: What we want to go back in time — not so long behind us — where people who are in politics are "wrong", just like that detained, maybe years, or even as he could "Dibon", cut his throat or drowned in the river, at where activists can be kidnapped and killed with impunity, where figures like Papuan theist figures or activists like Marsinah can killed arbitrarily and those who ordered him to be left only?

it can be said: Just and civilized humanity becomes real in respect of human rights. There hu - the special relationship between human rights and democracy and social justice. with democracy because democracy makes empowering people and human rights makes empowerment real. with social justice because of justice socialism is not created by believing in kindness, but, again, by empowering the people, and empowering people.

This is achieved by respecting human rights. very misguided those who ask what the assignment of rights human rights in the constitution can fill the stomach yat rack. The answer is of course: human rights are the only guarantee.

Human rights provide space and fighting power to the people, so that they can fight for justice. Social justice is not a government gift or rich people, social justice must be fought for and this struggle is possible if people's basic rights are weak recognized. the worker does not need to set a minimum wage, he needs it recognized the right to organize freely and to strike.

Then he himself can fight for the minimum wage, even more than the minimum wage. Therefore, religions should not tire of supporting and demanding respect for human rights. Because it is impossible to respect the creator god if the dignity of his creation is the most dignified not respected.

On a side note: human rights is outside religious people. and as I described earlier, people religion sometimes tends to be suspicious of understand that. even though only people who believe in god have a solid basis for the enforcement of human rights.

If humans are nothing more than apes with brains greater, his dignity also did not substantially exceed the dignity of the ape. Just the belief that humans are not only the result of evolution, but a very divine creation special, can provide a solid foundation against belief that humans have special dignity, so on human rights that want to protect that dignity.

If Allah is put aside, human rights are difficult maintained.

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