I remember as a kid, considering going to law school--I was actually advised by several to read the Bible since so much of our code and law was based on the Bible. Who knows what it's based on now! Maybe some porn novel and the Koran.
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Maybe you should takke a closer look into your own bible ;)
You will find many of the laws used by the Sharia in your own bible as well (for example the lower status of women and the harsh punishments for things like commiting adultery or getting raped).
And you know what? That´s no reaL surprise considering the fact that Judaism, Christianity and Islam share almost the same texts for large parts of their holy scriptures.
Oh and I think you can be glad, that the american constitution isn´t really based on these laws ;)
Then why is it that the U.S. Constitution violates the ten commandments?http://nobeliefs.com/commandments.htm
Your system of law is most assuredly not based on your horrible book of fiction. Look to the ancient Greeks or Romans for a better source of inspiration.
Yessum, he coulda got hisself one of them careers as a high flyin' lawyer dude - but, aw shucks, ain't he just as happy as a pig in shit flippin' those burgers in Mickey D's.
Hey, we could go back to Biblical law if you like. The question is, do you have the stomach to witness daily executions of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people for minor ad innocuous infractions, such as picking up sticks on a Saturday, or simply not sharing your religious beliefs?
The reason our laws are not based on the Bible is because previous generations' humanity shone through the veil of violence and repression that had destroyed so many lives pointlessly throughout history.
How old are you? Not much of the basic laws has been changed. It is still forbidden to kill, to maim, to slander unjustly, to rape, to discriminate, to steal.
The Bible and the Quran are rather alike in the rules, so if the Quran says something is prohibited, it probably says the same in the Bible. The Bible is closer to "some porn novel" than the laws.
was actually advised by several to read the Bible since so much of our code and law was based on the Bible
That's what you get when you follow fundy advice. You should have followed your head or at least ask, you know, maybe a lawyer or law professor.
"I remember as a kid, considering going to law school--I was actually advised by several to read the Bible since so much of our code and law was based on the Bible."
Yeah? Name one law that is directly derived solely from your Bible. The law cannot be something that is an obviously necessary prohibition that would be common sense to any civilization (i.e, murder being wrong and punishable).
So, which of the thousands of laws across the land, both Federal and State, are based on your Wholly Babble?
"Who knows what it's based on now! Maybe some porn novel and the Koran."
Most of the time it's based on common sense and the need for a structured society. Granted, there's some pretty stupid laws on the books but most of the time they get it right.
It still has nothing to do with your Bible though.
I was actually advised by several to read the Bible since so much of our code and law was based on the Bible.
How many of them were lawyers? Didn't think so.
Then again, fundies can get away with saying that U.S. law is based on the Bible because so few of the sheeple know anything about either.
@nutbunny: "Hilltopper" is the term for a student, fan or alumnus of Western Kentucky University, in Bowling Green. It's because most of the classroom buildings are built on a hill (where there are remnants of a Civil War fort), and because whoever named WKU's athletic teams was short on imagination. The WKU mascot is a fuzzy, blood-colored blob called "Big Red," for much the same reason.
Actually, he was responding to this comment which is even a bigger pile of idiocy:
Once, you could not run for office unless you were a God fearing, moral citizen, in upright standing in the community.
Absolute, fucking 100% pure bullshit. The religious test prohibition has been in the US Constitution from day one. Perhaps he means there was such an overwhelming number of "God fearing" men back in the day that the need to weed out the non-believers never came up.
I love seeing how pissed fundies get when you remind them that a Jew, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Satanist, a Hindu or even an atheist has just as much legal right to run for the office of POTUS as Christians do. Man, that gets 'em in an uproar!
Baloney. Virtually none of the laws in the Bible are in our legal code or ever have been. Sure, three of the Ten Commandments are found in our laws: the laws against murder, stealing and perjury. But every culture since the dawn of civilization has had laws against these things. All that guff in Deuteronomy, Leviticus and Numbers forbidding seeing your sister naked, having sex with your mother-in-law, not eating shrimp, having sex with a woman during her period, eating road kill, etc. are found nowhere in our laws. And some of our laws go specifically against the Bible, such as laws permitting divorce and the court rulings forbidding "blue laws".
Those people who told you to read the Bible so you'd understand law? You should sue them!
Oh, sorry, you can't because you took their advice and remain just as ignorant of the law as ever.
Sorry double post...
-TORM
"Who knows what it's based on now! Maybe some porn novel"
'Penal code' doesn't mean what you think it means, WKU.
I remember as a kid, considering becoming a rapist and murderer. I was actually advised by several to read the Bible, since so much murder and rape is justified in the Bible. Who knows what it's based on now?! Maybe on George W. Bush and Bill O'Reilly's novel "Those Who Trespass."
Let me guess, you were advised by one of those people whose advice for everything is reading the Bible.
Looking for the meaning of life? Read the Bible.
I'm in the process of writing a porno story involving lawyers. Other than that, I don't see how they intersect. (Working title: Prosecutors Will Be Violated)
Then again, there is porn in the bible, so....
For god said onto Moses lo, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Uh oh, wait a minute - he's right! Here's a sample I found in the Tax Code in Ecclesiastes, under Corporate Reorganizations:
...
13:6 If 13:5 applieth to an exchange, but that he doth receive, in addition to stock due unto him under 13:5, grain, oxen or other property or money:
13:7 gain (if any) to him shall be considered clean;
13:8 But that which be in excess of the amount of money plus the value of other property received, as set by the priests of the temple, shall be considered unclean;
13:9 And no complaint of loss to him shall be permitted.
Actually, it would be interesting if law was based on porn. Every situation, no matter how trivial or banal, would lead to sex with cheesy music playing in the background. That would be a very surreal way to live.
"I was actually advised by several to read the Bible since so much of our code and law was based on the Bible"
Locke,Kant,Hume & Paine wrote the bible?
Outside of thou shalt not steal and thou shalt not kill, and maybe thou shalt not bear false witness (under oath), nothing else in the bible has any similarity to any of our codes or laws. You'd know that if you ever tried to stone a disobedient son or put someone to death for working on the Sabbath.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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