Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes Thread October 2015 - Less Wrong
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Among examples of rules not widely shared among non-Christians that are enforced in present-day western countries, off the top of my head I can think of the ban on selling alcohol on Good Friday in Ireland, and bans on certain types of stem cell research in various countries. There probably are many more that don't immediately spring to my mind.
The first thing that pops into my head is monogamy.
That was a Greco-Roman idea the Christianity inherited.
Not just inherited. In Christianity marriage is a sacrament, as opposed to a convention of social arrangement.