Commenting on Mrs. Cherie Blair's lecture at Chatham House, London, yesterday, Professor A.C.Grayling disputed (BBC Radio 4's Today programme) the theory that human rights are based on religion - on the grounds that they antedate Christ by 900 years.
That is a non sequitur because Thomas Paine was, as he also remarked, a deist, not a Christian.
Rather, the ancient provenance to which he alluded reinforces my contention that there are no such things as human rights - only good, bad, indifferent or non-existent laws.
Thursday 1 November 2007
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