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Originally posted by wallie_x
"The Ten Commandments are undoubtedly a sacred religious text, but they are also a foundational document in the development of Western legal codes and culture," |
Another opinion of one zealot. If the 10C's were a foundational document where are the laws for all of the 10C's? There are some basic laws like laws against murder that happen to be in both the 10C's and our laws, but you only find a few common sense laws that are in both the 10C's and in our laws. These are laws that are common in most cultures, predating the 10C’s. Morals are morals.Religious morals, just like secular morals, are defined by man based on the will of society. Murder was immoral long before Moses chiseled the 10C's into stone tablets. Murder will be immoral long after Christianity is dead and gone.