摘要
References to human rights are now so popular that the theme has become a new type of de facto religion in the West, though it bears no such name. The world has long lacked a supreme ideology capable of all-inclusive coverage. The modem material world is already mature, but the absence of spiritual leadership suggests the incompleteness of modernity. It is against such a backdrop that the concept of human rights has managed to evolve into a new religion by ingeniously assimilating the resources of Chris- tianity and liberalism, so much so that human rights nowadays enjoy nearly the same standing as Christianity in the Middle Ages.
