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In a Ted X-talk years ago, Israeli historian Yuval-Herari made the startling claim that

human rights do not actually exist. Here's what he said, quote, human rights are

just like heaven and like God.

It's just a fictional story that we've invented and spread around.

It's not a biological reality.

Just as jellyfish and woodpeckers and ostriches have no right,

Homo sapiens have no rights.

Take a human, cut them open, look inside.

You find their blood, and you find the hearts and lungs and kidneys,

but you don't find their any rights.

The only place you find rights is in the fictional stories that humans have

invented and spread around."

Well, last week Harare's talk resurfaced on the site formerly known as Twitter and sparked

a lively debate there between

Tom Hollen the historian and author of Dominion, Glenn Scrivener and Anglican

priests and author of The Air We Breathe and Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist and author of 12 Rules for Life.

They all took issue with Harare's materialism.

Scrivener took issue with it and called his remarks about human rights nonsense.

Rights are indeed faith-based, Grivner said, but that doesn't make them any less real.

Tom Holland, who's not a Christian, maybe yet, responded that while he believes in

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