Ismail Kulakcioglu
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience, they should treat each other with an understanding of brotherhood ”.
How beautiful! It sounds good too.
When we divide the sentence into two and think word by word, the following occurs:
All human beings are born equal in freedom.
All human beings are born equal in dignity.
All human beings are born equal in rights.
So if we come from the world to Turkey, are all people really born equal in dignity and rights?
I can guess the answer that every person of reason and conscience will give to this question. Therefore, I will not say anything; but the issue of universal equality can be opened as follows: Just as in other sciences that depend on interpretation, the difficulty in defining the concept of equality in the law is caused by the relativity of social relations and the law’s oscillation between theory and practice.
The concept of equality cannot be absolutized depending on the relativity of social relations. For example, it is forbidden to preach the New Testament in some countries where Muslims live in majority. When you take five New Testaments to those countries and say, “I have come to preach them,” the possibility that you will not find your head in its place is not an exaggeration, it is real. However, it is not a reason for judgment that some of the citizens of these countries go to so called Western countries that attach importance to the rule of law and want to preach their beliefs. Again, in countries where Muslims, foreboding and unforeboding, live in the majority, people cannot officially change their beliefs to Christians; Places of worship can be manipulated or softly suppressed.
When we approach the issue in the context of equality, can we say that people in these foreboding and unforeboding countries are equal in terms of the right to choose and convey their beliefs and to live without restricting their beliefs?
The concept of equality is volatile due to the alternation of law between theory and practice and the neglect of the rule of law; It differs from country to country (the reader is advised to read the book “Theory and Law of Human Rights”, as it exceeds the size of this article). As it is said, according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all human beings are equal by birth. But in India and some foreboding Muslim-majority countries, people are not equal by birth. Even before people are born, their future and values are shaped by the dominant government. They do not have the same value from birth, they are postponed.
Go ahead with thoughts on equality and inequality.
Extensive sociological analyzes of the Soviet revolution have been made. In my opinion, the transformative power of the revolution lies in the slogan “Down with tyranny, we want bread and justice”.[1] The Russian people were crushed under tyranny (oppressive, one man) regime, they were fed up, they wanted to be saved. Because they lacked to meet their basic needs and justice was not working for them.
Can we say that where there is racism, people are equal by birth?
In a country where official business cannot be done without influence, can we say that those who are not privileged enjoy equal rights compared to others even when they are born? (I heard recently that people have to work for free just to make a career. Maybe this may sound normal, but the strange thing is that people look for favoritism to work for free:-)
Let’s not touch education… Let’s touch…Let’s not touch… Let’s touch: If you are so equal why can you not open a Christian seminary in Turkey!
Does God treat people equally? This is an important question and Christian Theism answers it like this: “Yes! Adam and Eve didn’t even have clothes. ” They had lovingly accepted each other before making their own path. They weren’t sexist either.
So what happened to the equality? Chapter 3 of Genesis, the desire of man to be like God is the beginning of all his erroneous decisions. The rest seems like a rip-off to the present: Christian Theism connects inequality (and all other problematic situations of man) to the wrong decisions made by man.
One final question to make it easier to understand Christian Theism: Was there politics in the creation?
Answer: No there wasnt; politics is a chain of relationships that has come out of the wrong decisions of human beings, and that does not work for anything other than violating equality and injustice among people.
Politics is like this yesterday and today; it will be like that tomorrow!
[1] https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekim_Devrimi (31.01.2021)
