As to your assertion,
"Democrats would love nothing more than to put the implicit stamp of approval of The United States of America on heroin, crack cocaine, PCP, LSD, etc, etc, etc and have an ever widening base of unmotivated dependents to give them a monopoly on political power."
I simply say that it is not the Democrats who are putting an implicit stamp of approval on drugs, it is the people themselves, witness the recent vote in Colorado. It is time to acknowledge what no longer can be denied,. The war on drugs is lost!
Here is the reply to which I referred:
Gen. Forrest , I believe people who use drugs lack the patience or commitment to practice meditation ,or lack the faith or devotion to rely on God . Both meditation and God are far better approaches at elevating consciousness than the lazy persons hedonistic alternatives. And neither cost a material penny :^)
Leo, I believe you are right in every one of these assertions. Indeed, in my posts in this thread I have made reference to the propensity of drugs to "erase the conscience" which one might translate into the traditional Christian formulation of, "the fear of God."
You are absolutely right, the use, even more the abuse, of alcohol and drugs tends to separate one from God which, according to my lights, is the equivalent of "death" described in the New Testament. Since reconciliation with God is the ultimate Christian expression of life itself, the abuse of alcohol and drugs should be abjured in every instance. But is this decision to be made by Hillary Clinton or by our own conscience?
Since the Enlightenment, the Western world has been moving away from the temptation to legislate salvation. No clearer example of that in the American experience can be seen than in prohibition which was primarily religious in its impulse and eventually pragmatic and individualistic in its repeal.
