[qam1]

But freedom is a gift of God. Westerners crave freedom partly because of the basic influence on their thinking over the centuries of Judaism and Christianity.

Where???

The "Heros" of the bible are made up of kings and tyrannts. Most notably is Mosses whose cruelity and brutality make Saddam look like a pussy cat. The only society in the bible that resembles a free one is the Romans and according to the bible They Were the Bad guys.

[Cicero]

Far be it from Cicero to deprecate the Romans. You would think that after a couple of centuries of persecution Christianity would have turned against Rome, but paradoxically after the conversion of Constantine Rome and Christianity converged. The vision of Roman law and Roman order was kept alive all through the middle ages and the Renaissance by Christians.