Religion & Law

THE FABRICATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AS A WORLD RELIGION

of nations by amorphous ideas of human rights, touching upon the symbiotic

relation between global capital and human rights, the anti-democratic nature of

many rights, the radically political nature of positive rights, the frequent absence

of national self-esteem and the consequent yearning for supranational approval,

the belief that judges and their surrogates are priests speaking for God, the

search for validating judicial will as replacement for a dead God, loss of judicial

confidence in reason, and banal judicial vanity. These lead to the creation of the

last and greatest Leviathan, a mortal god that can never be dethroned.