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I agree with you, especially with regard to the point about christ. Even if it's historically accurate to say that christianity has been the driving force behind "European" views, it's largely irrelevan now.
I think it's a worthwhile to make the distinction about rights though, since the job of modern government appears to be largely to implement the second type of rights (e.g., food, healthcare, shelter etc.) at minimal cost to the public (or at least at a cost that the public will accept).
I tend to find the "inherited a lot of money" tories less objectionable than the "self-made man" tories. The former just miss the fact that not everyone has the resources they've enjoyed; the latter misses the fact that not everyone has the luck they've enjoyed, and even if they have got where they were through simple hard graft, not everyone can succeed like they have, because there's simply not that much success to go round.