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Originally Posted by Rathji
They have become norms ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_%28sociology%29 )of society, which I guess could be called common sense. Either way it was almost undoubtedly affected by a thousand years of Christian dominance in the western culture and it's development. Whatever affected what our society accepts as normal, it still falls closely in line with Christian values. |
I have no doubt we have been affected by a thousand years of Christian dominance. I also don't doubt that many of these norms pre-date Christianity and the bible by many thousands of years, but we credit the bible and Christianity with all this great stuff -- our morality and some pretty important but straightforward things like "don't kill" and "don't steal". I don't buy it.
People were doing these things while they were worshipping sun gods and jaguars, doing rain dances and sacrificing virgins.