To Christians...Theocracy?

[abaris]

By the time of jesus the world had evolved enough for people to make decisions without any laws. Love god and love your neighbor are the only 2 laws we really need. The world would be a much better place if everyone followed this and the 10 commandments

What gives you that impression? First, love god isn't of any value to a society. It's an abstract concept That only binds the ones believing in a certain god. And to what exactly? There's no real life consequence if you do or if you don't.

Second, love thy neighbour. Humans being humans will never follow that rule. Regardless if they're christians or not. There's always exclusiveness.

Third, we're not talking about a golden age, if something like that ever existed. For the ones living in it, status was all that mattered. If you were low down on the ladder, you probably were even worse off than you are today in most societies. And we're also talking about a time when Roman law ruled this part of the world. Roman law was as sophisticated that it's foundations still are in use in anglo saxon case law. The whole precedence idea is derived from Roman law, which was nearly entirely based on that concept.