[quote=Calgaryborn;1144768]Here's a link to some written material on the subject:
http://www.clsnet.org/lsmPages/ICLS/bibliography.pdf
Also, as has been explained to you before Cheese;
just because you find an earlier reference to a christian principle doesn't mean Christianity isn't responsible for ingraining said principle within society.[/quote]
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Originally Posted by PYroMaNiaC
This is a fairly interesting idea. Do you mean to say that we heathens would run around murdering and stealing without this ingraining? That those cultures that had embraced these ideas well before Christianity would revert back to their hedonistic ways? That these pre-Christian cultures that flourished because they weren't murdering their next door neighbors wouldn't have expanded, exerting their influence on others as their nations populace rose and moved out?
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What????? I'm saying that this society has been influenced by Christian teaching both with in its law and it sense of morality. Furthermore, it is irrelevant what similar things other societies and/or religions taught because western society wasn't influenced by them.