Wow. I guess I really do have to explain the concept of the "rhetorical question" to you.
I wasn't literally asking which particular person's demise elevated you to the position of God. I should think this would be obvious, since the obvious answer to such a literal question would be "God", and there's little or no evidence to suggest that you are next in the line of succession to Godhood anyway. If you like, feel free to substitute "who died and made you dictator", "who died and made you Grand High Poobah", or if you really truly can't grasp the concept here and insist on being strictly literal, "what gives you the right to decide how people should behave".
The judging others - mercy - compassion ploy is just a smokescreen to hide that you realize that your behavior is wrong.
My behavior? I don't use drugs, thank you very much.
To pretend that self-destructive behavior is OK is neither compassionate nor merciful.
Neither is punishing allegedly self-destructive behavior by destroying the self-destructive individual with a prison term. And to declare that everything that's not illegal is "OK" is horribly destructive to the concept of individual rights and limited government. Hey, I don't think that nosepicking is "OK"... should we institute a $20 billion War on Nosepicking and sentence the guilty to mandatory years-long stretches in the pokey?
You're the one who brought up "God", not me. You need to defend your position, not me.
You're the one who's ludicrously misinterpreting my position. For the record, I highly doubt that any rational supreme being would approve of our near-suicidal policy on drugs, but that shouldn't be a factor in deciding the law anyway.
Sheesh. I thought that MEGoody was the silliest person in this thread, but you're really giving him a run for his money.
Are you prepared to argue that God is for using marijuana to get high.
Are you prepared to argue that everything God is not "for" should be against the law? You don't own any clothing made of two different kinds of fabric, do you? 'Cause if you do, off to the slammer with you!
I met a guy years ago who argued that and even quoted (i.e. misquoted) from the Bible to make his case.
Good for you. I met a guy years ago who wore a tinfoil hat and raved that the government put mind-control chemicals in our Raisin Bran. Why either of our acquaintances is relevant to this discussion is beyond me, but hey, you brought it up.
"what you think the prison terms should be for adultery and/or failing to respect one's parents." People who do these things are worthy of death according to the Bible. Old Testament law did not proscribe incarceration.
Wow. So you think that a kid who mouths off to his parents should be stoned to death under the laws of the United States? Naw, I doubt it. You don't seem completely insane. But like many otherwise normal people, you have a really hard time of gracefully conceding a position that's plainly wrong.