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Originally posted by mrnoodle
What is it about the sex thing that gets people so uptight, anyway? Troubleshooter, why didn't you mock the following:
(gonna steal your format)
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I pick the sex angle because it's the easiest one to find points that get people fired up. Nothing prurient. Most sexual rules are rooted in insuring the gene pool keeps its integrity.
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Originally posted by mrnoodle
Getting back on track...Happy Monkey, here's a few examples that have a direct parallel. There is no way of proving or disproving individual verses' contribution to founding documents, but the themes are the same:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…" Declaration of Independence
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus." - Galatians 3:28
"No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court." - U.S Constitution, Art. III, Section 3, Paragraph 1
"On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness." - Deut. 17:6
"..but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted." - U.S Constitution, Art. III, Section 3, Paragraph 2
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin." - Deut. 24:16
Edited to add that Blackstone depended heavily on scripture as well, and he was a favorite of the FFs
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What we need are some representatives of other religions to weigh in with their varients on those rules. I'm sure that we'd find them in most of the religions out there. There is no exclusivity for Christianity. One could say that the laws are rooted in Zaroastrianism via Christianity.