But, since these stories were made up as part of an oral history in the first place why would assuming that they were god-inspired make any difference to the fact that they are the basis of our society. Surely in 2600 plus years the god bits are well and truly subsumed into the general framework of man-made laws. We are working on this area all the time. Not much of the original god bits could be left I would have thought, and as we do not have a form of Sharia law in Western societies, and indeed we try to keep church and state separate, I cannot see the relevance of needing to know god is hovering around then, or now. We are stuck with it, and mostly as modified over the millenia they seem to have served us reasonably well. Obviously we do not run a modern society on all the ancient rules of conduct, and surely no one seriously argues that we should in secular modern western governments.
