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Originally posted by Vodstok
The ten comandments are basic rules for living your life, and they translate as "right" across any religion, or lack there of. However, you dont have to be religious to be moral. They are fundamental morals, the writers of the bible were just good enough to put it to paper.
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they are common sense rules for existing within a community.
every society came up with similar beliefs,
Religion is used as an enforcer.
(if the penalty of law : execution/jail time/hand cut off .. isn't enough of a deterrent .. then maybe the threat of eternal damnation will do the trick)
And this is when the relationship of church and state started - and became so meshed in the christian church that at one point the king was 'ordained by god' and disobeying the wishes of the king was disobeying god him/her/it/self.
The history of the church and state is so rife with corruption and hypocracy it's embarrasing.