Will Red State Christians finally give up the fight for the theocracy? In NY, I just heard the radio station K105.5 Kicks FM (whose truck we actually have in the shop now) announce that Connecticut just legalized medical marijuana. This was probably in the news for months now, but because I do not watch TV, I just found out now.
As Christians hit the voting booths in Republican Primaries worried about issues like gay marriage and Zionism, they appear oblivious to the fact that the tide of history is against them. Any hope of creating a theocracy with sodomy laws and prayer in schools is long gone.
We’d be lucky enough if we can use the force of law to not expose our children to enforced Muslim prayer in school. The religion of secularism already enjoys prominence due to the force of law. Just to get back to neutral ground where teachers can cover philosophy, theology, and science purely upon their merits and not political correctness would be nice.
When I was in college, I remember an Indian immigrant from Queens (originally from Kerala, a Christian region) who told me he was voting for Bush. I asked him why, being that his whole family voted for pro-handout Democrats. He said, “He hates the fags.”
Well, hating fags, sweet leaf, or secularism is so passe these days. Regular children’s TV shows have premarital sex and homosexual characters. Religion has lost any respectability in the schools and has been excised from curricula. People don’t understand why think think what we do. Quite frankly, the spread of Matthew Vines‘ view of theology within nominal Christianity shows “Christians” don’t even know either.
So, when you watch medical marijuana laws spread like a cancer across the country, don’t get mad. It is merely a symptom of God withdrawing His grace and the wane of Christianity. Yelling does not make Christianity come back. Only God, by His Spirit, can convert new believers. If we are to have revival, it is purely in God’s hands.
May more and more Americans come to know that they are dead in their sins, that they do not honor God, and the wages of sin is death. There is only one way out and it is trusting in Christ’s death and resurrection. No good works, no karma, no nothing. It is all Christ. Christ makes the believer by His Spirit and Christ makes the believer righteous. We, as always, add nothing to the equation.
Let’s get one thing straight. Medical marijuana is not recreational drug abuse. It helps chronic pain patients to cope without being addicted to opioid painkillers. Patients who are allergic to regular pain meds can use it. It stimulates appetite for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, and reduces their debilitating nausea. It helps reduce and control seizures, and shrinks some types of tumors. It’s become a standard part of medication to mitigate the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. You can’t qualify to receive medical marijuana without having one or more of a specific set of serious diseases or conditions.
The ability to extend care and compassion for the suffering through medicinal, regulated use of a plant-based product is an EXTENSION of God’s grace and mercy, not a withdrawal of it.
The reason medical marijuana laws are being adopted is because the objections are based on ignorance or fear instead of fact, the opposition doesn’t hold up under rational examination, and more and more people have family and friends who have been helped.
Most people smoke weed not for medicinal use, the laws are pretty much a joke.
That’s true, but that’s a concern for recreational drug use laws, not medical marijuana. Too may people confuse those two issues. I’m a health care worker. We help reduce the suffering of patients with serious and terminal diseases every month. We’ll use any treatment that works – that is legal, as medical marijuana has been here in WA for a decade.
Great points Invisible Mikey. I am a 100% disabled veteran with 25 years in the Army. I am relatively young having just retired and in my mid 40s. I am a christian that believes Marijuana of any disposition should be legal… and it will be.
I grew up loving Ronald Regan and always will… but he got the war on Marijuana wrong. The facts are the facts. Marijuana is not the “DEVIL’S WEED” as it was portrayed in the early 20th century. Yes it is an intoxicant. like alcohol, Oxycontin, and other prescription medications.
It is time to end the lies and injustices that occur daily around marijuana use no matter what its called.
100percentdisabledveteran
I don’t favor criminalization either, but drug use is a moral cancer, that’s my point.
I hear what your saying and totally respect your opinion Craig. I really do. Your comment sparks a little more debate on the topic. I don’t disagree that Prescription abuse, cocaine, heroin, meth are scourges. No doubt! I have friends that are addicted to prescription opiates given to them by the VA. I am not kidding when I say that strong, A-type personality men, become doped up zombies. Then there is the other side. My friends that have opted out of using prescription pain medication and use cannabis. You would not know they have been shot, blown up and or dealing with severe mental conditions from multiple combat tours. I have been there, I know from first hand experience. Give me the choice and I pick cannabis. We can agree to disagree. But just like TV. If you don’t like the program. Change the channel. If you don’t like Marijuana… don’t use it. But don’t tell me I can’t because of morality. Morality is objective and often times opinion based. There is only one guide to morality and that is the 10 commandments. No where does it say “thou shall not use marijuana”! I doubt that I will change your mind or position. But, I enjoy a spirited debate.
Again, my position has never been against its legitimate medical use, bu rather the proliferation of its medical use coincides with its decriminalization for recreational use. The two go hand in hand. The latter is the real moral cancer, because self-edification is the opposite of what is taught in 1 John 3:16-17.
Further, Christians do not require hard and fast rules not to do something. “It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles” (Rom 14:21). This to me addresses the whole issue of drugs.
Craig,
I don’t want to get into scripture references. because we could end up debating this to the end of the millennium.
But, I will grab one verse that has always been a steadfast verse that I have followed.
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? Matthew 7:1-4″
I need say nothing more.
“It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles” (Rom 14:21).
I don’t need to judge anything, this is the obligation of every Christian.
Ever notice that people want to smoke medical weed and not swallow cannabis pills with the same supposed benefits?
People want to get stoned. Medical Marijuana is a farce towards legalization.
Let people get stoned, pass an amendment. But weed and it’s moral crusade?
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