The Bible and Human Rights...

Christians sometimes quote the Bible out of context to support their own point of view....  Sometimes they're just not familiar enough with the Bible....  Or they can be misguided, or even fanatical....  But I believe the Bible supports human rights. 


There's a particular chapter of the Bible that explains about true worship and describes some people who are unsatisfied with their religion....  And this chapter says that people need to express some practical Christianity by helping those in need, in any way.... 


In the Bible times, it was common for people to fast as part of their religious practise....  But the following passage tells about what God sees as a true fast, true religious worship....  It's the 58th chapter of the book of Isaiah.  Will quote a few verses:


"Is not this the fast that I have chosen?--to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? ...  Isaiah 58:6, King James Version.


"...If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil, if
you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted soul, then... [God will
bless you]."  Isaiah 58:9-10, New Revised Standard Version.


My dictionary says that a "yoke" is:  "that which joins together, the frame for joining oxen...
a mark of servitude, slavery...." 


When Jesus was on the earth, He spent a lot of time healing and helping people....  And he warned us against being like the Pharisees who had a lot of man-made rules and felt self-righteous....  Jesus was compassionate, and not just to the socially-acceptable people....  These days, we have a slogan--WWJD?--What Would Jesus Do?  And I believe Jesus would've been supporting the majority of the human rights issues, if not all of them...?  Nobody should be oppressed and discriminated against....  And Christians and others are free to read the Bible further for themselves, if they wish to know more...!  These are a few of my comments, and some quotations. 


[Personally, I have a FEW concerns about how some of the transgender rights should be handled...but I don't really want to get into a debate....  I'm not an authority and I've made mistakes in my explanations in the past....  And to be honest, I have a tendency to be a controlling kind of person--although I don't mean to and don't want to....  And I'd rather let the churches figure out their own issues, if they want to differ from some of the prevailing humanistic views in the USA...?  But
we certainly shouldn't make people feel bad by our bad behaviour towards them....]