{"id":64892,"date":"2017-10-30T18:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T22:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64892"},"modified":"2017-10-30T18:48:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T22:48:30","slug":"bbc-radio-4-a-point-of-view-roger-scruton-the-religion-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64892","title":{"rendered":"(BBC Radio 4 A Point of View) Sir Roger Scruton&#8211;The Religion of Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;European society&#8221;, says Sir Roger Scruton, &#8220;is rapidly jettisoning its Christian heritage and has found nothing to put in its place save the religion of human rights&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But, he argues, this new &#8220;religion&#8221; delivers one-sided solutions since rights favour the person who can claim them &#8211; whatever the moral reasons for opposing them.<\/p>\n<p>He says Europe needs to rediscover its Christian roots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b092gkks#play\">Listen to it all<\/a> (just over 9 1\/2 minutes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;European society&#8221;, says Sir Roger Scruton, &#8220;is rapidly jettisoning its Christian heritage and has found nothing to put in its place save the religion of human rights&#8221;. But, he argues, this new &#8220;religion&#8221; delivers one-sided solutions since rights favour the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64892\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,168,200,133,114,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64894,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64892\/revisions\/64894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}