Hold on a second here. Christianity has little to do with Biblical law. Christ got rid of the Law. Judaism and Islam are the religions that talk about Bliblical Law and think you can base a society on it, not Christianity, except in some Protestant Back-to-the-Old-Testament spinoffs.
----- Original Message ---- From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Fri, March 19, 2010 6:23:05 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Mr. X <from_alamut at yahoo.com> wrote:
Jefferson would have referred to Anglo-Saxon heathen based common law as the
> basis of the US state. Pagan common law and not biblical law is the
> foundation of US law.
>
Yes, and it had evolved under Christian kings since Augustine baptized Æthelberht of Kent in 601.
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