Secularism is what made America and the rest of the world better. Separating church and state.
You dunce....
Both the structure of our government and the law are both based on the Bible.
Wow. Are there still fucktards out there that believe that. I guess that such people have never read a non-fiction book about American history. And yes, David Barton and Ann Coulter are fiction writers. Because their writings are devoid of any facts--just like the brains of the people who read them.
Except that I can prove what I say.....
....and that identifies you as an uneducated moron, doesn't it.
The Constitution and American law are not based upon the Bible, Christianity or Ten Commandments. I have written about this before, but it bears repeating.
American law is based upon the English Common Law. Thomas Jefferson studied the subject and concluded that the Common Law existed before Christianity arrived in England.
Jefferson said: “But Christianity was not introduced till the seventh century; the conversion of the first Christian king of the Heptarchy having taken place about the year 598, and that of the last about 686. Here, then, was a space of two hundred years, during which the common law was in existence, and Christianity no part of it…
Time for a remedial education lesson.
1. In the spring of 527, Justin died, and on April 4, 527 Theodora and Justinian were crowned as empress and emperor. A great part of Justinian’s greatness was his instinct selecting men of skill and ability to do his bidding. While loyal to Justinian, the three of his inner court hated one another: Theodora, John the Cappadocian (his finacial advisor and administrator) and Belisarius (his greatest general).
In 528 Tribonian was selected, with John the Cappodocian, to prepare the new imperial legal code, the
Codex Juris Civilis, or the Code of Justinian.. Rome had a legal system dating back to the ‘Twelve Tables,’ written in 451 BCE, based on the 6th century BCE work of Solon of Athens.
See Rosen, "Justinian's Flea."
2. The Old Testament was written well before this.
3. This is the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization. The principles of justice are laid down in the Torah and the Gospels, and implemented through
human actions memorialized in judicial codes.
The written laws and rules are codifications of the unwritten ones worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience.
a The Bible is the wisdom of the West. It is from the precepts of the Bible that the legal systems of the West have been developed-systems, worked out over millennia, for dealing with inequality, with injustice, with greed, reducible t that which Christians call the Golden Rule, and the Jews had propounded as “That which is hateful to you, don not do to your neighbor.”
Mamet, "The Secret Knowledge"