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13. I did not claim that the Code of Hammurabi had been adopted

Reply to JDPriestly (Reply #12)

Fri May 16, 2014, 05:14 PM

May 2014

On the other hand you have claimed that the 10 Commandments are historically important to which the question must be raised how so? My post demonstrated the futility of the assumption that the 10 Commandments are in anyway important to current laws, they are merely a list of largely ignored instructions pertinent only to a certain group of religions.

Oh you might want to claim that the Founding Fathers were Christian - a few were but most were Deist. The other argument you might employ is that English Common Law was founded on the 10 - untrue, the foundations of English Common Law lie in the pre-Christian pagan codes of the Germanic and Celtic peoples.

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What "Historical importance of the 10 Commandments"? intaglio May 2014 #10

We haven't adopted the Hammuratic Code either. And with the exception of JDPriestly May 2014 #12

I did not claim that the Code of Hammurabi had been adopted intaglio May 2014 #13

I won't argue with you. I didn't decide to put the Ten Commandments there, but JDPriestly May 2014 #14

And I repeat they are not intaglio May 2014 #15

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