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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Bizarre argument to say the least.
Western Law is fluid, it changes due to situation, circumstance and changing societal pressures and structures.
The 10 commandments however are not fluid, they don't change and won't change.
I'm betting if you go back to a lot of the early Western Laws, then you will find a lot of influences from the 10 commandments, and a lot of them have been struck down.
We don't punish woman for adultry, but they certainly used to, they don't punish you for working on the sabbath, but I bet if you go back into some of the early state legislatures they did. Frankly it wasn't that long ago that opening your business on Sunday wasn't allowed under the law.
The basis isn't there now, but I'm willing to bet that it was, especially in colonized North America.
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ever think that it's no coincidence that the more advanced and educated a civilization becomes, the further their laws stray from biblical text? back in those early western civilizations almost everyone WAS religious in some form or another, so of course the laws will reflect the general public belief. but as society progresses and the christian majority gets smaller, the importance of what the bible says goes down dramatically