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Originally Posted by BrianR
The Catholic religion (and most others) forbids murder too. Should laws against that be repealed because they are "religious" in origin?  |
The idea behind separation of church and state isn't to look at all religious laws and do the opposite. It is to make laws on their own merits, without redard to religious laws. Murder as a law predates all current religions, possibly all religion. It isn't on the books because of the Bible.