Sentences with phrase «trump human law»
Religious zealots think the rules of their gods trump human law.
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Therefore in the Jewish tradition, in Jewish law, redeeming captives trumps just about everything else,» said Ascherman, of Rabbis for Human Rights.
Human rights are far from universal, and individuals who believe that religious mandates trump individual rights are plentiful and all too often in power, attempting to actually institute the horror that is Old Testament law, literally applied, but fortunately «the West» remains steadfastly in favor of heresy and an individual's right to choose what to believe (including the choice to believe nothing at all) and the individual's right to not have their moral behavior dictated in law and enforced by threat of violence by a set of religious rules with which they do not agree.
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