(September 6, 2012 at 11:14 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Then I am so long removed from the culture of that religion etc etc etc....
If you dont feel the need to credit whatever religion got it's morality from (or even investigate the issue, it seems) then I fail to see why we should credit religion for our current secular morality. This makes your earlier comment about what you perceive to be the ultimate origins of secular morality a bit mystifying...don't you think?
The laws come from religion, but it is whether the laws for religion come from the concept of religion itself or were innately created within the collective subconscious of the culture and then applied to their religious beliefs.
If you want facts, Hammurabi's Code is a later addition that incorporates religious law into the secular.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.