Keith, I thought you might have understood my earlier post, but it seems I overestimated your powers of interpretation.

To spell out the point: British civilization, culture and ethics are an amalgam of accumulated influences, including the bible, but are not informed solely by the bible.

In fact, even British interpretation of the bible was informed by the numerous cultural and ethical influences of the day.

These influences include indigenous pagan culture, the work of greek philosophers, cultural inheritance from Roman times, not to mention cuktural diffusion through trade and invasion, inwards and outwards, from the vikings, the normans, etc etc etc (lots of etceteras covering hundreds of years.

This is very easy to understand.