Picture this. A man walks into a classroom and shoots someone dead. Is this a sin? Now picture this. A man bursts into a class room running. “Don’t shoot” the man yells. As he says this a police officer runs in after him and shoots him. Is this a sin? Does the circumstance matter? Both involved someone you didn’t know anything about getting killed. In order to answer these questions you have to know what sin is. Sin according to Webster’s dictionary is “an offense against religious or moral law”. Okay that’s easy to understand and have a meaning if you are religious. If you’re not though, does sin exist? If you do not believe in any higher power to judge you then what is stopping you from killing anybody who you don’t like. Some people might …show more content…
That is, in born triggers to know if something is right or wrong. How can you be sure these so said morals are justified or correct? More questions than answers. My point is that the only judges we have of what is right and wrong are either our own self-made morals that change from society to society, or sins. Sin however also is different from one society to the next. This can be reasoned that different societies have different sins they hold to be true. If this is true, and history shows it to be, then how can we judge anything as right or wrong? How can we be sure that killing someone is a sin? Take for instance the armies of the world. Are they saved from sin because they fight for a reason? Is a justified killing not a sin? If so then as long as your reason is valid in your mind, killing is not a sin. Some people have the mindset that if you’re in the war you’re willing to kill and die for your country or something bigger than yourself. This as we know is not always the case as in times of need, countries call for drafts where young men and women have no choice but to possibly fight and die for the sake of their country. Are …show more content…
In countries like Sweden, hitting a child in anyway is wrong and for some people, a sin. Just because we see spanking or putting a child in a corner as the right way to teach a young child respect, doesn’t mean other countries see it that way. Are they wrong for thinking of this as a sin? Or in that case would we be wrong in thinking it’s a sin to kill a baby if it’s the second one born in China? In this case even the citizens of China might believe it’s a sin to kill a baby, but do the people in the government? Are their leaders cruel or at the very least committing a sin by preventing over populating and bringing their country to ruins? I have never heard of someone thinking logically as a sin. But when that logic is put into a harmful position people see the here and now, what type of damage it is doing that we can see without eyes, not the bigger more catastrophic damage it will do when they are no longer around. It is hard for anyone to sit around and not do anything to help when we see people getting hurt or dying. It is much easier to say killing deer is wrong then to think how quickly their numbers grow and how over populating kills humans and how they will run out of food, upsetting the eco system down the road. Being nice feels better than cold logic but is not as good of a choice in the long run. So why is it then that
countries where religious law is prominent, it is very important and respected. It is divine law , and strives to guide human behavior with spiritual mandate. Religious law serves as a representation of the religions values and morals. Most followers of this type of law believe that the law came from God(s). A certain type of religious law is Islamic law. The Koran is the basis for Islamic law. “The Koran sets down basic standards of human conduct, but does not provide a detailed law code.”(crf-usa
Capital Crimes and the Death Penalty Capital Offenses Capital offenses are crimes against the State or the Country. These crimes are not limited to death of one victim, but also include treason, espionage, genocide, and terrorism that result in death. Capital offenses vary on the state and federal level. State offenses that result in the death penalty are homicide cases with an average of 10 aggravating factors, and in some cases the aggravated sexual assault of a minor especially under 13. This
Published on the heels of Billing’s article, Douglas Greenberg’s “Crime, Law Enforcement, and Social Control in Colonial America” (1982) examines the effectiveness and factors of colonial law enforcement. Unlike New England’s legal system, which he describes as the most effective in seventeenth century America, “the Chesapeake colonies weathered a terrifying degree of conflict that was reflected not only in personal assaults and frequent thefts, but in substantial political violence as well.” He
three basic systems. There is Western law which is divided into civil law and common law. Then there is Religious law. Each country has its own unique legal system that they include variations of civil, common and religious law. Some have a combination of all three. Civil Law are based on concepts, categories, and rules derived from Roman law, with some influence of canon law, sometimes largely supplemented or modified by local custom or culture. The civil law tradition, though secularized over the
to conservative religious beliefs prostitution has against the social institution of marriage, how it exploits women and destroys society’s moral climate. A. It is seen, throughout history, religious movements have criticized, shunned, persecuted, blamed, and demonized prostitution. C. However, tolerance and diversity are considered to be identified with America’s structural strength and reflects the countries success and growth around the
Undoubtedly, the religious schism during the sixteenth century occurred because of the political, social, and economical problems. There were many political conflicts at the time of the Protestant Reformation. As the Reformation progressed, political problems only worsened in Europe. The king’s law and custom had almost always overridden local law and custom. Those towns and territories became sensitive to the loss of traditional rights and freedoms. Therefore, townspeople and village
been made to Jewish divorce laws, women are continually being mistreated when dealing with the issues of divorce. In biblical times, there were no assurances that women would be protected when faced with a man who wanted a divorce. Furthermore, women were not allowed to initiate the process by asking for one. As time went on, it was recognized that women needed to be somewhat shielded from actions that her husband could take, which she had no control over. Rabbinic law made four major changes to help
Puritanism was an activist movement of English Protestants in the 1600s to reform the Church of England. Religious persecution provoked Puritans into leaving England and creating a new life of religious freedom and economic opportunity in the North American colonies. Puritans didn't want to separate from the Church of England, only "purify" it. King Charles I gave the Puritans a charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628, leading to settlements in Salem. Religion was a priority in the
punishment must fit the level of crime, thus, the question of what �within reason� means is relatively up for grabs. The fact of the matter is that law is not a remote entity. Law changes by following the three guiding principles: concrete political groups, current emotion and real economic interest. As a result, crime and punishment follows closely behind since law will inevitably be broken. In the late 18th-early 19th century, punishment was intended to reform, to create penitence (hence the penitentiary
Across the world there are countless religions, new and old, each having their own unique traditions and laws that believers abide by. As defined by World History, Sharia, the Arabic word meaning “the path” or “the way”, alludes to traditional Islamic law. (Ellis, Esler, and Beers, 255) Sharia originates within the Koran, the holy book of Islam, which Muslims consider the unaltered word of God. Along with the Koran, Sharia is derived from the teachings and examples set by the Islamic prophet, Muhammad
To some American Christians, the Old Testament is obsolete. They see no correlation between living in today’s world as a Christian, and the happenings of the past. They attribute the Ten Commandments as laws for the Jews, “intended only for the nation Israel before the death of Jesus” (Gane, 1997, para. 1). They reinforce that idea by pointing out that the fourth commandment was for the nation of Israel specifically. “The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations
From the makeup of the government to the laws it enforced, this time period was essentially built around religion. Today, our state of affairs is a bit more complex. We do still have our connections to religion, but some aspects of this have been lost to time. During 1642, especially in Puritan Boston as portrayed in The Scarlet Letter, society was built on religion. In this time, the community’s common religion was held above everything. For example, religious leaders such as Reverend Dimmesdale and
different connotations. In the Oxford dictionary, sin is described as “an act which is regarded as a transgression of the divine law and an offense against God; a violation of some religious or moral principle” or simply “an act regarded as a serious or regrettable fault, offense, or omission.” Based on the first definition, sin is often mistaken as just an action taken against the Bible and it is used as a blanket term. Sin loses its meaning when it is not properly defined and therefore it is hard to
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." This amendment, commonly called the Establishment Clause, forms the foundation of the right of every American to practice their chosen religion freely and without the interference of the government. In 1947, the Supreme Court issued a statement emphasizing the separation of school and state based on this amendment. Students are entitled to the right to express their religious beliefs in school
social controls used to help govern citizens in an unceremonious way. These informal controls developed over time into formal controls, laws, to try and restore harmony within a society and punish those who are in violation of laws. Laws are defined as a set of rules developed by a body of legislation to maintain order and peace of an organized people. Laws can be used as an umbrella to blanket a multitude of subsets, such as, political, administrative, financial, and civil infractions. Public