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In fact, someone shoot me before I turn out like most of my older family.

Rationing when money is flowing adequately. Being ridiculously suffocating. Not appreciating personal space/personal interests/PERSONAL LIVES. Not letting you get on with something you know quite well you can sort out yourself. Making it abundantly clear they don't give two hoots about your education, but about money, whether this September or next September means they can rent your bedroom out, and if they don't have to see you for months on end. Being horridly contradictory and controlling about the smallest of things. Etc. Etc.

Oh my lord.

I'm a teenager.

Rofl.

As far as I'm aware, the laws against stealing and murder are pretty much based on the two of the Ten Commandments. I think. If not, my entire argument/idea/wonderment goes out the window.

Anyway.

Obviously, there wouldn't be an issue if the individual, who was non-Christian, had a moral problem with murder and theft. If they opposed it anyway, ignoring the Ten Commandments. They would be following the law, which just so happened to be based on Christianity BUT also comply with what they also thought. Fine, sorted. No issue there.

But, if an individual, a non-Christian individual, felt there was a situation appropriate enough for theft or murder, of which happens to be against a Christian-based law...surely as non-Christians that individual shouldn't be made to follow it?

Wouldn't it be an infringement on rights, almost? To force someone to conform against their own beliefs and values?

Also, wouldn't it be on the same lines as refusal to allow religious clothing in schools, to promote secularisation and "equality"? Would it not be fundamentally the same; it's still an infringement, surely?

I have a feeling something like this might be abused, though. Claims for atheism and agnosticism, heck even to other religions, just to avoid punishment or defend their actions. To what can this be extended to? Large, organisational crime, or petty/small crime? And, if the legal system did change to reflect something like this, how can we avoid misuse? How can we have secularised morals and laws, not based on Christianity or religion or whatever, after being exposed to a religion-based law and order for so long?

I also have a feeling I need to get out more.

I'm also feeling rather hormonal.

It's like I'm the epitome of PMT.

Anyway - another journal. Am not too sure if I'm going to let people I know read this or not - I shouldn't do, really, but I'm fed up of not being taken seriously (I tried to stand up for myself the other week, tell people that I AM more intelligent than what people think, that things should NOT be dumbed down for me...I got a "are you drunk?" for my troubles). It's like...like it or not, I do actually have thoughts that stretch beyond boys and fairy lights and socks.

I'll have to see how this goes, I guess. I have a little diary to myself, an offline one, anyway, so I guess any major, impact-worthy ideas and thoughts that could potentially wreck fabulous havoc on any of my personal relationships will have to go in there.

Shame, that.

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