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Human rights are currently endorsed by many religions, but are not the origin of human rights. Most religions teach an in-group-out-group mentality that divides people into "people of my religion that should be treated well" and "people not of my religion that should be treated more poorly". The main way that religion influenced the development of human rights was indirectly through the Wars of Religion in Europe that convinced people that persons of other religions are still people and it is not worth it to kill or subjugate them.

The origins of human rights are almost all philosophical coming out of the Enlightenment Tradition in Western Europe in the 1600s. They capitalized on the uniformity all of humans before their Creator. The most commonly referenced articulators of that tradition are john Locke, Rev. Francis Hutcheson, and Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui. They believed that just like there was a natural law of gravity or a natural law of maths that there should be natural laws of human decency and ethics.

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