In my opinion we should promote the principle of loving our neighbour and campaign for inclusion and eradication of the causes of poverty. These objectives will only be achieved by collective action, by campaigning for systemic change, by challenging those with power to effect change so to do. Expressions of hope, or assisting individuals at point of need, although necessary and worthy, will not trigger change. To paraphrase Desmond Tutu: we should stop having to pull people out of the water, we should go upstream and prevent them from falling in.
There is no objective set of human rights. Declarations of human rights are of human origin, not of a divine nor of a natural law origin. Human rights are subjective concepts with no supernatural nor metaphysical basis.
Following the way of Jesus is not to place trust in a metaphysical entity. Rather it is a determination to help those in need and to promote social justice by following concepts attributed to Jesus by the authors of the synoptic gospels. They may be read as a manifesto.
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