Seems to me, many of these ideas would perhaps be better labeled “European” than Christian. (Many of of our legal principles come from the Enlightenment, which was a mildly “anti-church” phenomenon.) Keep going back and we find ideas that originated with the Romans and Greeks, who were neither Jews nor Christians.
The claim that are country is based on Judeo-Christian values does imply that these values are somehow different than other religious values (otherwise, why bring religion into it at all?)
You are correct that the roots of our law are in Christian organizations (i.e. “The Church”), but there are few distinct aspects of our law that can be attributed specifically to Christian values.
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Pri: We’re about to go off into the weeds here, and I want to avoid that.
Two points need to be made, however. First, (and again), I was not drawing any comparisons, odious or otherwise, to Islam (or any other religions) when I made the point about Judeo-Christian principles. It was a simple statement of fact, with no value judgment of any sort implied.
Second, Henry the Deuce pre-dates the Age of Enlightenment/Age of Reason (generally held to be the 18th century), by a full 600 years. As with my point about Judeo-Christian principles, I simply pointed out that Henry codified and systematized much of the law, resulting in what we now call English Common Law, and American Common Law rests on English Common Law. No disrespect to Hammurabi intended; I was simply drawing a line and making a point.
