In the Islamic world Sharia law is the basis for many of their legal codes. There is also secular humanist movements that are pretty much anything goes that isn’t religious. Then you have Marxism which views morals subservient to the collective in the quest for utopian Communism and the repression of anything that challenges the central control that is supposed to guide society to that utopian state.
In my opinion though, e7’s use of a “universal just belief” is something that transcends mankind and is not rooted in science. But yes, I was injecting my take on what he said, and I might be presumptuous in doing so.
The posters in the other thread were/are off base. A truly devout person, regardless of their religion, can’t help but be influenced by their religion. And that’s fine.
What the posters were concerned about, (and what isn’t happening) is the enactment of scripture into law. E.G.:
“As Leviticus 20:13 commands: if a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads, I am introducing Senate Bill 202, the death penalty for committing homosexuality”.
I’ll be honest I’m not sure. I’ve always assumed it came from ancient Chinese religion which he reinterpreted to apply to the Chinese government in language the average Han Chinese could understand. Like the theory behind the Mandate of Heaven and what not that the Chinese people still live by.