[F_J_H]

Joking aside, Something I find fascinating about ancient wisdom literature that has been in circulation for centuries - honed and refined generation after generation, is how succinctly key concepts are boiled down in ways that can be easily grasped/remembered. (In this case, avoiding conflict of interest/segregation of duties.)

[notriddle]

1. Selection bias. There's a lot of stuff in the Bible that is total gibberish to modern ears.

2. Inversed cause and effect. Even if you aren't Christian, there's a good chance that the morals you were taught as a child are influenced by it. The Christian Bible is literally the world's best selling book.

[decremental]

Going further it's in fact the very foundation of the morality of western civilization. It's little wonder why it's constantly under attack and diminished.

[mrunkel]

Western civilization existed long before the bible (the Greeks) and the predominant culture spread throughout western civilization (Roman) was non-Christian long before it was Christian.