>>Yeah, I thought about that, I should have said, ALMOST ALL OF OUR LAWS. As I recall the earliest laws came under the "Code of Hammurabi". Our laws have their origins in the old testament.
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>Some of them do. Some don't. I suspect if you want through the U.S. penal code (or state code) item by item you couldn't trace the origin to ancient religious principles for very many of them.

IANAL and I specially don't know the scriptures at any scholarly level, but I guess if one digs deeply enough, every angle about, say, stock market, gated communities, sophisticated financial instruments, equal opportunity employment, EPA, SEC... it's all in there, it just takes some study to find. Where else could it have come from?