#walkingdeadreference

When an authority figure tells me not to do something, I want to do it just to spite them. That's just the kind of person I am. And I think a lot of teens are this way. When parents grab their kid by the collar (metaphorically, of course) and don't loosen their grip, it pushes the kid away. 

When my religion is so strict about what I can and cannot do, I get so angry. One minute, I'm repenting and praying my apologies to God, and then I remember all the boundaries that are set and the countless number of activities that are considered "sins" and it makes me resent the Church and its rules. 

I'm not going to go into specifics about which sins shouldn't be sins, but remember when being left-handed was considered a sin? Seems ridiculous now, right? I think a lot of the sins we commit today are unjustly looked down upon. 

And I think a lot of sins are rightly named sins. Lying, being disrespectful, etc. But I feel like there are a lot of loopholes because every situation is different. People lied to the Nazis about the Jews they were hiding. Is that a sin? Technically, yeah, they lied. But they were saving lives. A pregnant woman encounters complications and, unless a C-section is performed, her baby will die. However, there's nothing that can save her when the surgery is performed; anesthesia is not on hand. The person delivering the child obeys the woman's pleas and essentially kills the mother to save the child. It's murder, right? But it could be seen as murder whether she saved the kid or the mom. I just think that every sin needs to be looked at differently.