Posted on 08/16/2014 7:28:46 PM PDT by aimhigh
Having worked as an investigator in a Prosecutor’s office, the War on Drugs is for two things: First to show that the cops and prosecutors are ‘tough on crime’ and generate more salaries, higher vudgets for both.
Second (and more importantly to the politicians) the money resulting from seizures of property in drug busts. Cop pulls over a Caddy, the cop finds a tiny residue of a doobie in the ash tray, the Caddy is seized and all cash on the occupants as ‘drug-related’.
It is all about the money.
I continue to say, with biblical basis, that it was a mistake to have shifted blame and responsibility to soulless entities. That is how we got the concept of demon rum, etc. Theologically it is valid to identify the existence and work of demons, but they are not physical objects. They are spirits who urge the misuse of the creation.
Unclear theology obscured the whole idea that the creation is a good creation, and torpedoed opportunities for God’s grace to operate. God will love and bless everyone who is willing to receive the love and the blessing. And that means not putting artificial limits upon Him. A healing art was distorted into a destructive art, because it was presumed that a chemical is capable alone of moral action. It is not. Water can slake a deadly thirst, or it can drown. Putting respect for God where it belonged would have gone much further than Prohibition, either historical or present, could have, in resisting the abuse of drugs.
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