You know what isn't okay? Double posting.
Smoking cigarettes per se isn't a theological issue, but the broader issue of human freedom is, very much so. How is it that we have the power, and indeed the right, to choose damnation, but not to choose to light up a cigarette?
Straight-up suicide is a more complex question, because it's hard to say whether a human being of sound mind can choose to end his/her existence. In the case of assisted suicide (for the terminally ill), I strongly disapprove of the action itself but just as strongly believe that, if that is their wish and they are not insane, they should be able to decide their own fate for themselves.
Smoking cigarettes per se isn't a theological issue, but the broader issue of human freedom is, very much so. How is it that we have the power, and indeed the right, to choose damnation, but not to choose to light up a cigarette?
Straight-up suicide is a more complex question, because it's hard to say whether a human being of sound mind can choose to end his/her existence. In the case of assisted suicide (for the terminally ill), I strongly disapprove of the action itself but just as strongly believe that, if that is their wish and they are not insane, they should be able to decide their own fate for themselves.
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