Journal 12: ✞ SIN ✞

Sin is a religious word. It's not just breaking a law or doing criminal activity, nor is it doing something that is not suited for the norm or moral uprightness. To commit a sin, one must break a religious creed, religious custom and conduct and anything not depicted by the bible as a crime cannot be considered a sin. For example, the bible mentioned many sins, betrayal, murder, lie, steal, and many other sins. If one commits a sin, one will go to hell unless he/she redeems him/herself. Some of the laws in the world are not sins but is a crime considered by our custom and our long history of traditions. For example, it is illegal to seduce, flirt with a woman with "temptation, deception, arts, flattery, or a promise of marriage." This is an extreme example of one of the sins of lying because flatter, deception, and a fake promise are considered lies but of a very harmless and trivial importance. However, some American laws are drifting away from when it's during the colonial times when religious customs and traditions are intertwined and most of the times the same as the law that will get you arrested. Meaning that if you committed a sin, you are most likely going to go to jail, pay a fine, or even crucified, and then you are going to suffer even more in the Afterlife in Hell for all of eternity. But now because the United States bases many of its laws on precedent, the long history of Supreme Court Trials generated some absurd laws that under normal circumstances would not happen. For example, in North Dakota, it's illegal to dance with a hat on. In Colorado, it's illegal to throw missiles at cars. In Kansas, it's illegal to hunt bunnies from motorboats. In Montana, it's illegal to have more than 1 alarm clock going off at once. In Florida, it's illegal to keep a hippo on the roof of a building. In Minnesota, it's illegal to cross the border with a chicken on your head.