The values expressed in the ancient world would be considered completely uncivilized to us today.

It is not that all human beings throughout history were evil people who spent their lives killing babies, waging war, and watching bloody sports. The average man of antiquity was simply trying to get through the day – to survive. The world operated on an entirely different value system than the one upon which we citizens of a Liberal Democratic world operate today. While a few individuals in antiquity preached the importance of peace and education, the vast majority of humanity believed and practiced otherwise.

Greece, Rome and virtually every other nation have certainly contributed something of value to civilization: art and architecture, engineering, philosophy, government, and science. However, we definitely did NOT inherit, even from the most advanced civilizations of the ancient world, a sense of morality or values. The vision of a utopian world which we all share -- a world of peace, caring, and harmony -- built on these six fundamental values, did not come from these ancient nations.

So where did we get our values and vision?

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