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=Religious beliefs and Government=



Religion is a huge influencial factor in the government today, which only only adds to the hypocrisy of it all. Here in the U.S. the right to freedom and right of religion are two of the biggest factors that set the nation aside from all the rest. The system shows sparks of religious affliations everywhere for example: the mentioning of God in the pledge of alliegience as well as for swearing on the bible when on the witness stand. But one of the most controversial hypocritic actions by government is the sentence of death to criminals found guilty of commiting murder.

__**Scott Peterson Murder Trial**__ In the year 2004, the controversial trial of Scott Peterson finally came to an end. The story begun on Decemeber of 2002, when pregnant Laci Peterson had banished from her home town in Redwood. Soon after, the corso of Laci was found in a new by bay area and much evidence was pointing at her husband, Scott Peterson. Two years later, Scott was found guilty of murder and the jury was given the option to sentence him to life in prision or Death. The jury decided to sentence Scott to death.

The truth of the hypocritic system is that a life for a life is not the way of christians. The [|Ten Commandments] clearly states that shall will not murder and any fellow christian would adhere to the commandment and punish murders in a different way. The sentence of murder is hypocritical to our society becuase how can we promote that murder is wrong when the government itself "kills" murders as a punishment.



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