If you spend any time at all talking to contemporary Christians about the idea of human dignity, you're virtually certain to hear this: Someone will claim that human beings intrinsically possess a certain quality (called "dignity") that demands from others a certain degree of respect and propriety and they will attempt to anchor that idea in the well-known creation account of Genesis 1 which speaks of man being made in God's image.
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