Christ was the first to say that a single person is just as important to God as a ruler, or as a mob. The Romans and the Greeks were scratching at the truth with law and philosophy but did not have it right. The teachings of Christ are the basis for the idea that man is born with rights. Without the idea that you are personally important to God, then you have no innate rights, only the privileges you have the power to take.
Aristotle and Cicero basically got most correct—but they did not apply it to all people.
Christianity said “Love thy Enemy” and “Forgive trespasses”. It is the ONLY truly human and truly JUST ethics that have ever existed. Tribal, herd (animal) instincts make it “hard” to be Christian (moral).
Christianity created the concepts of Free Will (choice) and Individiualism (against mob (democracy) tyranny)—that every single person (even the unborn) has dignity and Natural Rights from God ONLY——their Rights predate ALL man-made governments. (This worldview created the US Constitution).
Marxists, sodomites, islam, humanists, pagans make up their own “gods”-—usually themselves, but ALWAYS removed from Reason, Truth, and Justice (Western Virtues). Aristotle created the Nicomachean Virtues-—the system which was adopted by the Stoics like Cicero which was only a small leap to Christianity. Christians added the three Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity-—which created all the chivalry, harmony, and Romance and Beauty of the Renaissance and later “cultures”.
Concepts are embedded and learned by transmitting Traditions to children—and that has been destroyed totally by our evil, dehumnaizing culture—removing young children from the Natural Family and putting them in front of screens to be programmed and atrophy all brain coordination. Time and reading and studying ALL the Great Books/Great Ideas that came before and learning from the perfect, loving role models which includes true diversity of the World: male/female paradigm. No culture but Christians, put motherhood and women on a pedestal. All other cultures were always pederastic, misogynous ones where vice was rampant. (Vice creates slaves only-—no virtue (Virtue—inner control of base animal instincts is the ONLY thing which creates Free men/women and allow Free Will. Without Virtue, as Socrates and the Catholic Church stated in the Middle Ages—there is no possiblity of Freedom).
That is why Marxist promote Vice to our children 24/7 and have totally erased our Constitution—flipped it actually to promote Vice in our “Justice” (virtue) System-—to erase Virtue formation and normalize the pagan, Marxist, sodomite worldview of slavery. Destroying the meaning of Words is the Marxist meme-—how they flipped everything since the evil Justice Holmes who erased “Justice” (virtue) from Just Law (lol) (unconstitutional, but he got away with it).
Without Knowledge—Wisdom of the Ages-—there is no “Christian Worldview and only Christianity was banned from “skools” in the 1930s by the evil Humanists and Socialists who wanted children dumb and incapable of critical thinking skills-—just programmed into Lies and misinformation so no possibility of “thinking”—reduced to a godless animal—incapable of Humanity (reasoned Animal).