p. 83 ... rights are propagated and flourish in a particular kind of liberal political culture and without a dramatic, tectonic shift of this culture, anything like a Christian concept of natural right is at best a utopian vision. As Michael Ignatieff expresses the idea: rights language ‘cannot be parsed or translated into a non-individualistic, communitarian framework. It presumes moral individualism and is nonsensical outside the good can hardly be more than what Hobbes calls it: “the object of any man’s appetite or desire”’ that assumption’.58 Ignatieff concludes that ‘secularism has become the lingua franca of global human rights as English has become the lingua franca of the global economy’.59

58 Michael Ignatieff, Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 67.

59 Ibid., 53.