Replies

Destroy yourself all you want buddy. My concern is when you snort your coke and put OTHERS at risk. Hard drugs take away your ability to act responsibly, to reason, and to be able to choose to stop using the substance. You have no right to do this on public property, nor your own, because there is no way to fence in the possible effects and inevitable effects. 154 posted on 12/13/01 10:37 AM Pacific by Texaggie79

Alcohol contributes to more violent crimes than any other single factor because the impaired judgment of perpetrator, the victim, or both, due to drinking. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, alcohol is the key factor in many violent crimes:

up to 68 percent of manslaughters
62 percent of assaults
54 percent of murders/attempted murders
48 percent of robberies
44 percent of burglaries.
42.2 percent of rapes
64 percent of all reported child abuse and neglect cases

Alcohol is far and away the most socially devastating drug, and always has been.

Yet Biblical Law admits no State Authority for the prohibition of intoxicants... neither the "hard drugs" used by a vanishingly small proportion of the population, nor the vastly-more-harmful "murder drug" known as "alcohol".

Biblical Law does, however, specify the Death Penalty for all crimes against Person listed above, and anywhere from double- to quadruple-restitution (to be accomplished by forced labor if necessary) for all Property Crimes specified above.

Rather than attempting to devise a patchwork Prohibition of our own imagining -- "leaning upon our own understanding" rather than trusting the Law of God -- we ought to reform our laws to be consistent with Biblical Principle (including a robust application of Capital Punishment for all crimes of malicious violence).

Biblical Law provides no authority whatsoever for any State Prohibition of Intoxicants (if it did, the only logical approach would be to outlaw the most deadly drug - alcohol - first and foremost). Rather, Biblical Law treats the citizen as being 100% responsible for his own actions at all times -- intoxication is no excuse.

Yet Biblical Law admits no State Authority for the prohibition of intoxicants... neither the "hard drugs" used by a vanishingly small proportion of the population, nor the vastly-more-harmful "murder drug" known as "alcohol".

Biblical Law does, however, specify the Death Penalty for all crimes against Person listed above, and anywhere from double- to quadruple-restitution (to be accomplished by forced labor if necessary) for all Property Crimes specified above.

Rather than attempting to devise a patchwork Prohibition of our own imagining -- "leaning upon our own understanding" rather than trusting the Law of God -- we ought to reform our laws to be consistent with Biblical Principle (including a robust application of Capital Punishment for all crimes of malicious violence).

BUMP

Drunk, stoned, or sober, if you harm someone you pay, if you kill someone though your negligence you go to prison, if you willfully murder you get the chair. Easy to understand, simple to administer.

Biblical Law provides no authority whatsoever for any State Prohibition

Ok Uriel, lets go back to Romans 13 where you incorrectly draw this conclusion. The verse, in NO WAY, limits government to anything less than punishing EVIL. The enumeration in Romans 13, of certain sins, shall not be construed to deny the government the ability to creat laws to punish other wrongs.