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The Enlightenment and Human Rights
Partly the Enlightenment came about as a reaction to see what happens if you ground human worth in religious doctrines, such as the European Wars of Religion. If you're going back to scriptures, particularly in the Hebrew Bible, God commands the Israelites to engage in one genocide after another. And I don't think it's very easy to come up with a notion of universal human rights from either scripture or Christianity.