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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
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
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Yet the point still stands.
Biblical laws did play a huge part in the forming of Western Laws.
Of course, given that the Western world is also very much based on being free to do your thing, the laws will evolve to reflect that.
There is an obvious conflict here.
The 10 commandments are just that....a set of laws/rules to tell one how they should live their life. Western society is based on freedom, so enforcing certain laws like the 10 commandments is almost impossible.
Besides, I don't think they were meant to be used as rule of law. To me they're something you choose to follow personally.
But hey, I'm sure when our founding fathers started up Canada they looked back at the
Code of Hammurabi....and designed their laws based on that.
