Not all of God's rules are always followed. Fellows in Britain have mostly given up on the rules on not eating pork and stoning women for infidelity and the like. They dismiss them as God having an off century. And breaking some of the very minor rules might just carry a fine, but breaking the big ones, like "Thou shalt not kill," will put a person in the hottest soup.
[Bertie takes a while thinking about the second question.]
God decides that the making of spoons is bad. Then politicians decide to agree with God that spoon-making is bad, and create laws that determine whether the making of spoons ought to be punished on the same level as murder or theft or something else entirely.
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Date: 2011-06-04 11:50 pm (UTC)[Bertie takes a while thinking about the second question.]
God decides that the making of spoons is bad. Then politicians decide to agree with God that spoon-making is bad, and create laws that determine whether the making of spoons ought to be punished on the same level as murder or theft or something else entirely.