This is part of the Land of the Free series.

Religion in America has, unfortunately, always been mixed with politics. Not only is this unfair and unethical, it’s against our constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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Karma has been coming up a lot. If I tell a little white lie or something I’m told “that’s bad karma.” I’ve really been thinking about it the past few weeks and the more I think about it the more I know that Westerners really don’t even understand what the word means, and second of all, it just can’t exist even if that were the proper definition.
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This is part of the Land of the Free series.

Suicide should be legal and you should be able to euthanize yourself as it is your body and you should be able to do what you will with it even if that means suicide. No one should be able to tell how long you should live for. If you want to commit suicide, you can do so by a licensed doctor by following just a few terms:
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“If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.”

- 1 Corinthians 3:17

Two parts are especially important here:
anyone defiles and which temple you are. This tells us that not only is murder a sin, but so is suicide because you are “anyone”.

And as Deuteronomy 5:17 quite clearly says Thou shalt not kill. Kill, by definition is simply “cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing)” based on New Oxford American Dictionary.
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This is part of the Land of the Free series.

In the Land of the Free there would only be one tax because of the 3 Fundamental Rights of Every Human Being. The people would need to vote every couple years on what percentage of their income should go to these rights based on a vote by the people and not just government officials.
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