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That's your opinion. I've heard all the first truths arguments from Hadley Arkes on down. Whether you think these fundamental rights descend from a higher power or not is not really relevant. From your perspective it has to come from a Biblical G-d. From my perspective it comes with the inherent dignity of being a human being. Once you prescribe to the notion that these fundamental rights come from a Biblical perspective then you have nuts like muslims laying claim to their notion of rights from their god. That doesn't work. We're right and they're not. I don't want to have a war of religions. As wrong as their religion is they can still rely on it if it's a contest. We are human beings, the dignity in that is enough.

Translation: human rights and dignity don't really exist, so we create a subjective social construct that pretends they do. That being the case, you really have no argument against any dictator or ideology that denies these, since he can create a different social construct.

The idea that the existence of more than one religion makes it impossible to determine which one of them is the authentic one is a cop out. Besides, everyone acknowledges that the Jewish religion "used to be" true. It's only when people start arguing about what "replaced" it that we run into trouble.