re: #162 Obdicut

What do you think about basing law off of religion?

I think most systems of law have religious underpinnings, or have at least evolved from various sets of religious laws. I don’t, however believe that they were handed down by the Gods, rather they were common sense that was cloaked in religious garb because thats how we perfused our system controls, especially through an illiterate population. The Ten commandments make a pretty good basis in the absence of other structured law systems for the time they were set down.

I also believe that a religious justification of law in this day and age is a very weak underpinning.