>>Sorry, but you can’t have “tenets (for you).” The tenets of Christianity are what they are, and that simply isn’t one of them.<<
Then you must have missunderstood me. What I was saying is that nobody is perfect, and only perfect people do not need the blood of Christ. We all sin. All of us.
When I said it was one of the most basic for me, I meant that I see it as one of the most basic. Others may see other things as more basic for them.
>>However, it is a fact that you will then be faced with refusing medical care to people who will die if not treated. <<
I'm not a doctor.
>>I think that’s a myth. I think drug users do many hundreds of times as much damage as drinkers.<<
I disagree. Drunk drivers kill over 25,000 a year on our highways and that does not count the ones that are only injured, putting strong pressure on the medical community, the insurance community and the legal community. Drug users simply pale in comparison. And they would even if it were legal.
It's still a bad thing. And that is only my opinion of course.
"Then you must have missunderstood me. What I was saying is that nobody is perfect, and only perfect people do not need the blood of Christ."
Sorry, there's just no way I can get that from what you wrote.
"We all sin. All of us."
Yes.
"I'm not a doctor."
No, but you're a voter, and that's who would make the decision.
"I disagree. Drunk drivers kill over 25,000 a year on our highways"
Actually, those statistics are cooked. The number of people killed by *drivers* who are *actually* drunk, where the accident is caused by the drunk driver, is much smaller.
The alcohol nazis inflate the numbers by including, say, accidents where a person had a couple of beers, is waiting at a red light, and is rear ended by a sober person.
"Drug users simply pale in comparison. And they would even if it were legal."
We don't have any accurate numbers on accidents caused by people who are on drugs, either. The only thing we can be pretty sure of is that it is hugely under-reported.