Moral Parasitism

Despite the inability of their worldview to ground objective morality, modern atheists are often the most zealous moralizers of our age. They crusade for human rights, equality, and the dignity of the individual.

However, these are borrowed concepts. The idea that every human being has intrinsic worth regardless of their utility to the tribe is a distinctively Christian innovation, rooted in the Imago Dei (Image of God). It is the belief that humans are sacred because they bear the stamp of the Divine.

In a purely materialist/evolutionary worldview, humans are the same as worms or tree sap. Stephan Hawking said it best "The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes."

There is no secular reason to believe that a weak or disabled human has "rights." By championing these values, atheists are "stealing" from the theistic counterparts' worldview to build a moral framework their own philosophy cannot support.

They are moral parasites, living off the interest of the religious capital they seek to deplete.

Formal Argument

P1. Universal human rights entail intrinsic and inviolable dignity: worth that is not conferred by society, utility, or power.

P2. Atheistic naturalism understands human beings as contingent biological products of unguided processes, with no inherent teleology or intrinsic moral status beyond what humans conventionally assign.

P3. If humans possess no inherent moral status, then “rights” are necessarily conventional (socially granted) or instrumental (useful fictions), not objective and inviolable.

P4. Universal human rights are asserted as objective and inviolable, even against social consensus (e.g., slavery is wrong even if a majority endorses it).

C1. Therefore, atheistic naturalism cannot justify universal human rights as objective and inviolable.

P5. Any adequate grounding of universal human rights must explain why human dignity is intrinsic rather than conferred.

P6. Theism grounds human dignity in the nature of the person as bearing God-given worth, independent of social recognition or utility.

C3: Therefore, Universal human rights presuppose theistic metaphysics.

Analogy

In Chess, the rules are made up by humans (subjective). We can change them. Gravity is not made up (objective). It applies whether you agree or not. Atheists treat morality like it is gravity, but their philosophy says it is chess.