I think this needs to be clarified for people who may be Atheists. Even if you don’t believe in God at all, your freedom depends upon this idea that your rights come with your being. Otherwise, you are dependent upon some other fallible human being to tell you what you may or may not do and this means that YOU really have no rights at all. Any right that is not part of your very existence, that may be given or taken away is not a real right, rather it is just the opinion and force of some other human being. Seems simple enough.
Kind of hard to persuade atheists that there is an order that transcends the authority of the state. But of course, they all accept the premise because otherwise democracy makes no sense at all.