Escribe James Chappel en "The Mythical Connection between Natural Law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. James Chappel":

p. 89 The linkage of Christianity, natural law, and human rights has gone curiously unchallenged in the literature, for the paradoxical reason that it suits the purposes of both conservative and leftist scholars (the latter of whom are eager to play up the conservative origins of rights talk, as part of their argument that it is insufficient to the challenges of our time).6 My argument in this chapter will be a simple, and hopefully provocative, one: as a historical matter, the UDHR is not a natural law text. This does not mean that no natural law aficionados approved of the UDHR. It also does not mean that no religious conservatives celebrated human rights, or even helped to draft the UDHR. All of this is manifestly true, as many historians have by now shown.7 The UDHR was a product of the 1940s, and it was a product especially of the Atlantic powers: it would defy all historical logic for Christianity to be absent from its origin. And yet this does not mean that Christianity, much less its natural law variant, was the central ideological mainspring of the text – or even a very important one.