Posted on 06/26/2002 12:00:05 PM PDT by sola gracia
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ABC News reports that a Christian woman who examined research on marijuana found "no evidence to back up the horrible things she had heard about the drug." A Bible study on the topic turned up nothing negative, so "she began to wonder why some religious leaders seemed to favor stiff penalties for marijuana users." She even decided to try smoking pot.
According to ABC, the woman, who is 35 and a mother of five, then decided to launch a "Christians for Cannabis" Web site, and to begin a grass roots campaign aimed at encouraging legislators, religious leaders and newspapers to rally for an end to the marijuana prohibition. The mission of Christians for Cannabis is "to provide encouragement, support and prayer for the [Christian cannabis user] subculture as a whole and those that work on its behalf."
ABC notes that while Christians for Cannabis is a bit unusual, it is not the only religious group advocating an end to the war on drugs. The Presbyterian Church (USA), the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and the Progressive Jewish Alliance are among the groups that have lent their support to a call by the National Coalition for Effective Drug Policies to redirect efforts to curtail drug use. "These organizations all make clear that their opposition to current drug policy is based not on support for drug use, but out of a belief that the war on drugs has done more harm than good and that it is essentially immoral."
You???
Or the STATE...
If you believe that the STATE is entitled to tell you what substances you may or may not ingest, then you believe that the STATE owns your body...
That means you are an advocate of slavery...
Because if you don't own your own body...
Then the STATE does...
That's exactly what you are...
A slave...
Yes, It IS that simple...
Actually, not quite. A slave can be compelled to do something he does not wish to do. Laws only prohibit someone from doing what he does wish to do.
A good Bible study will not turn up anything negative about drinking jet fuel either, but that does not mean one should do it. I believe the Apostle Paul said something to the effect that all things are lawful, but not all things are expedient. What is her motivation for doing this? It sound like she merely wants to get stoned, and justify doing something that is not expedient.
No, it is not necessarily that simple:
The humans are always putting up claims to ownership which sound equally funny in Heaven and in Hell, and we [devils] must keep them doing so. Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!-- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, XXI.
Really???
Well it sure is a good thing that the income tax is voluntary...
Imagine if the sheeple were forced to pay...
"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless."
Isaiah 10:1-2
Why is that???
Why does that sound so funny???
That may be the way things are run in Heaven and in Hell, but that doesn't have a damn thing to do with us being here on planet Earth...
If you don't own your own body, then you are a slave...
It IS that simple...
water into wine
wheat into weed
hmmmm....
How exactly does that change anything???
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