GALATIANS 3:28 ESV There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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1 GALATIANS 3:28 ESV There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. ROMANS 10:12 ESV For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. PROVERBS 22:2 ESV The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.

2 JAMES 2:1-4 ESV My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, You sit here in a good place, while you say to the poor man, You stand over there, or, Sit down at my feet, have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

3 EPHESIANS 6:9 ESV Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him. EPHESIANS 5:21 ESV Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. I PETER 3:7-8 ESV Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

4 COLOSSIANS 3:11 ESV Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

5 What Is the Source of True Freedom and Human Rights?

6 Alexis de Tocqueville "The most profound geniuses of Rome and Greece never came up with the idea of equal rights. Jesus Christ had to come to earth to make it understood that all members of the human species are naturally alike and equal."

7 Friedrich Nietzsche "Another Christian concept...has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights."

8 Luc Ferry We tend to take the concept of equality for granted; yet it was Christianity that overthrew ancient social hierarchies between rich and poor, masters and slaves. According to Christianity, we were all 'brothers,' on the same level as creatures of God. Christianity is the first universalist ethos."

9 Richard Rorty evolution cannot be the source of universal human rights. Instead, the concept came from "religious claims that human beings are made in the image of God.This Jewish and Christian element in our tradition is gratefully invoked by freeloading atheists like myself."

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11 "They are endowed with certain unalienable rights : WHO ENDOWED THEM?

12 JOHN GRAY Logically, materialism leads to reductionism the conclusion that humans are nothing but animals. But most materialists do not want to accept that bleak conclusion. They want to grant humanity a higher status and dignity; they want to believe that humans have "consciousness, selfhood, and free will so they freeload off Christianity.

13 JOHN GRAY "Humanists never tire of preaching" the gospel of human freedom. But "Darwin has shown us that we are animals," and therefore "the idea of free will does not come from science." Instead "its origins are in religion not just any religion, but the Christian faith against which humanists rail so obsessively." Thus humanism "is only a secular version" of Christian principles.

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18 MICHAEL RUSE "Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion -- a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality." And with worship. A few years ago, a Mass was composed titled "Missa Charles Darwin" (Missa means Mass). The piece is based on the fivemovement structure of the traditional Mass. It sounds very much like Renaissance church music, but the texts from Scripture have been replaced by excerpts from Darwin's writings

19 STUART KAUFFMAN Evolution is "a new world view" with "a new view of God, not as transcendent, not as an agent, but as the very creativity of the universe itself."

20 STUART KAUFFMAN "What do we gain by using the God word? I suspect a great deal, for the word carries with it awe and reverence. If we can transfer that awe and reverence, not to the transcendental Abrahamic God of my Israelite tribe long ago, but to the stunning reality that confronts us, we will grant permission for a renewed spirituality.