Religion stems from culture not the other way around

Behold, 15 er 10 Commandments:

The 10 commandments come from Exodus 20:1-17.

And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

1. You shall have no other gods before me.
    
2. You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
    
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
    
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
    
5. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
    
6. You shall not murder.
    
7. You shall not commit adultery.
    
8. You shall not steal.
    
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
    
10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

When you look at these, the ONLY commandments I follow are: five through nine.

5) I love my parents
6) Murder or in the King James Bible Kill is against the law
7) I will not commit adultery if I am married. It's breaking the marriage contract
8) I will not steal, I am not a REPUBLICAN!
9) I will not lie. I am not a REPUBLICAN!

Commandment one through four is a religious requirement not a criminal nor civil offense. Ten is just plain sexist: You shall not covet your neighbor’s house nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor his wife? Why is a woman an object and not a human being? Keep in mind, this is Judeo Christian belief the religious nutcases want us to worship. Including 1-4 and 10.

So breaking these commandments, you are committing a sin.

noun

1.

transgression of divine law: the sin of Adam.

2.

any act regarded as such a transgression, esp. a willful or deliberate violation of some religious or moral principle.

3.

any reprehensible or regrettable action, behavior, lapse, etc.; great fault or offense: It's a sin to waste time.

In Greek, Sin means to miss the mark. So in all intent and purpose, if you are into archery and you miss the 10 ring, you have sinned. So what is the wages of sin?

New International Version (©1984)
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Then we compare this to

Sharia Law

Laws and practices under Sharia
Marriage laws
The Muslim man who is not currently a fornicator can only marry a Muslim woman who is not currently a fornicatress or a chaste woman from the people of the book.
The Muslim fornicator can only marry Muslim fornicatress.
The number of wives is limited to four, – Mohammed married 15 women and consummated his marriages with 13. (al-Tabari vol.9 p.126-127)
The Muslim woman who is not currently a fornicatress can only marry a Muslim man who is not currently a fornicator.
The Muslim fornicatress can only marry a Muslim fornicator.
The woman cannot marry without the consent of her guardian. If she marries, her husband becomes her new guardian.
The guardian may choose to marry the virgin without asking her consent, however she can oppose the marriage and then it is cancelled.
The guardian cannot marry the divorced woman or the widow if she didn't ask to be married.
The number of husbands is limited to one, the Muslim mistress cannot have sex with her slaves.
Islamic law on marriage differs from one school of thought to another.

Divorce laws
A husband may divorce his wife whenever he wants. If the marriage has been consummated, the divorced woman must remain at her ex-husband's house for three months before she is allowed to leave. The man has the ability to retract the divorce by having sex with the woman within those three months.
A woman who wishes to be divorced needs the consent of her husband. If he consents she has to pay back the dowry. Under certain circumstances (abuse, for instance), the wife may ask a judge to separate the couple.
If a man divorces his wife three times, he can no longer marry her again unless she marries another man and then divorces him. These are guidelines; Islamic law on divorce is different depending on the school of thought.

The penalty for theft
In accordance with the Qur'an and several hadith, theft is punished by imprisonment or amputation of hands or feet, depending on the number of times it was committed.

The penalty for adultery
Main article: Stoning to Death in Islam
In accordance with hadith, stoning to death is the penalty for married men and women who commit adultery.[4] For unmarried men and women, the punishment prescribed in the Qur'an and hadith is 100 lashes.

Dietary laws
Main article: Islamic dietary laws
Sharia dictates that Muslims may only eat from meat that has been slaughtered in the name of God and meets stringent dietary requirements. Such meat is called halal, or "lawful". Islamic law prohibits a Muslim from eating pork, and most juridical opinions also hold monkey, dog, cat, carnivores and several other types of animal as haram (prohibited). For the meat of an animal to be halal it must be one of the declared halal species, and the animal may not be killed by excessively cruel or painful means. The traditional means of slaughter is by slicing open the jugular veins at the neck, resulting in quick blood loss; a state of shock and unconsciousness is induced, and death soon follows through cardiac arrest.
According to the Qur'an, the animal does not have to be slaughtered by a Muslim, but may be slaughtered by a Jew or a Christian (People of the Book) as long as it meets their strict dietary laws. This does not normally apply in modern times as animals are normally not slaughtered by Christians in the name of God. The majority of Christians no longer have rituals associated with slaughter, nor do they ask for God's permission before the kill. The method of slaughter used by most Christian butchers is also considered inappropriate by many Muslims. (Al-Ma'ida 5: "The food of those who have received the Scripture is lawful for you.")- this is only provided it is killed in accordance with God's Law, and in His name. Most Muslims will accept kosher meat as halal. (Qur'an 2:173, 6:121) 

The role of women under Sharia
Main article: women in Islam
Islam does not prohibit women from working, but emphasizes the importance of housekeeping and caring for the families of both parents. In theory, Sunni Islamic law allows husbands to divorce their wives at will, by clearly saying talaq ("I divorce you"). The divorce becomes permanent if the couple has been divorced three times. Women do not have the same right to divorce. In Shi'a Islam, divorce is more involved than this and state proceedings vary. In 2003, for example, a Malaysian court ruled that, under Sharia law, a man may divorce his wife via text messaging as long as the message was clear and unequivocal. [8] Such a divorce, known as the "triple talaq" is not allowed in most Muslim states. The divorced wife always keeps her dowry from when she was married, and is given child support until the age of weaning, at which point the child may be returned to its father if it is deemed to be best.
Islam has no clergy, but women may become religious scholars. In practice, it is much more common for men to be scholars than women. Many interpretations of Islamic law hold that women may not have prominent jobs, and thus are forbidden from working in the government. This has been a mainstream view in many Muslim nations in the last century, despite the example of Muhammad's wife Aisha, who both took part in politics[citation needed] and was a major authority on hadith.
A Muslim may not marry or remain married to an unbeliever of either sex (2:221, 60:10). A Muslim man may marry a woman of the People of the Book (5:5); traditionally, however, Islamic law forbids a Muslim woman from marrying a non-Muslim man unless he converts to Islam

Again, death is the punishment for violating religious laws. Gawd this is so barbaric! On the other, if you steal, lie, murder, rape, or commit other offenses, you go to prison. At least you're still alive to say work on a fire line or make license plates or learn a trade or yes, an education. Yet what blew my mind away was Canada's discussion about implementing Sharia law...huh? You know, the same country that has single payer health wants Sharia law?

‘One law for all Ontarians’

Five years ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced, “There will be no sharia law in Ontario. There will be no religious arbitration in Ontario. There will be one law for all Ontarians.”

The premier was referring to the fact that since 1991, arbitration decisions made according to religious laws were enforceable in Ontario courts, and he was now going to rescind the law that made this possible.

McGuinty’s declaration ended a heated 20-month controversy sparked by Toronto lawyer Syed Mumtaz Ali’s 2004 announcement that an “Islamic Institute of Civil Justice” would shortly begin arbitrating family matters on the basis of sharia law, accompanied by a warning that Muslims who did not submit cases to Islamic arbitration panels were not “good Muslims.”

 Huh? I am a Christian atheist. I do not worship the religion but God and Jesus. With that said, I do NOT  push my belief nor do I want the laws written in the Bible for Jews and Gentile who choose to follow, applied on non-Christians or atheists. The no duh commandments are penal codes in my state: murder 187 P.C., robbery: 211 P.C., Burglary: 459 P.C. Rape: 261 P.C. should be the extent of the religious tenets that should be applied evenly. Not stoning or killing someone who lusts on a man or woman. The Bible or Quran should arguably be laws pertaining to only to people who believe in the religious mumbo-jumbo and not to non-believers.

And sadder still are people who purposely or accidentally combine culture and religion together. In Africa, the pyramids of Giza are beautiful. The Egyptians were the first astronomers. They also gave us geometry...(grrr). In Iraq, Afghanistan or Iran, these countries gave us the rugs, ceramics and other cultural programs. Prior to the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadeq, beauty was coming from this part of Asia. Sure they had their religious short-falls, but with overthrows, coup and the U.S. involvement in the western part of the Asian continent, all this had gone. So what's left? religious oppression that has nothing to do with culture and identity, but a way to suppress the arts and beauty beyond the church, temple or mosques.



Religion created this mess and not the culture.