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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Well I'm no anthropologist, but I'm pretty sure people had rules about killing the neighbours, stealing things, shagging someone else's gal and all the other stuff long before anyone heard of this particular Christian god and his bible.
There were successful civilizations before Christianity.
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I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying. I am not saying that good and right things came exclusively from the Bible and that none of these ideas existed before Moses came down off of the mountian. Where they actually originated isn't possible to determine. Even if you had access to a Time machine and unlimited resources I highly doubt you could pinpoint the time when society as a whole decided these things.
The point is these things are part of the Christian faith, who originally decided them is irreelevant to this dicussion as far as I am concerned. If you are part of the Cult of the Insane Crack Addicts and happen to beleive that you should not steal. Then your belief in that matter is the same as one of Christian faith. It doesnt mean that you are Christian, it doesn't even mean you like Christians. It does however mean that if you taught someone that they should steal, you would be teaching them a principle of the Christian faith.