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Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth?

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

One of the ideas that's taken for granted in the West is the idea of human dignity.

But it has not always been the case that people were seen as valuable based on who they are.

We often hear, for example, that democracy came from the Greeks,

but it wasn't democracy for all. It was for some. It was for the wealthy. It was for the men.

It was not for the ethnic minorities. It was not for the women. So where did the idea of universal

human dignity come from? Well, the answer to that question is that it came from Christianity.

And you don't have to

believe other Christians who say that. You can actually listen to atheists, at least two of them.

First of all, the one and only Frederick Nietzsche. Nietzsche, of course, is famous for saying God is

dead. He also talked about human dignity being born out of a Christian ideal. He thought it was a bad

idea. He thought it was a bad idea. He thought it was a

sign of show of weakness to acknowledge that everyone, including those who are disabled or who

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