Why Christians should oppose use of marijuana

they must be willing to grant it to others as well!

Oppose it all you want.............just let other adults have the freedom and liberty given to them by GOD to make that decision for themselves.

people who suffer from medical conditions and who can not function without marijuana. Now, some of them toke up a bit more than they need to just to function, but they're not hurting anyone. The only reason marijuana is illegal is because hemp products compete with some industries in this country that have some very strong lobbies: petroleum, lumber, pharmaceutical and textile, and probably more.

For those of the Christian faith as I am......If you believe the words of THE BIBLE and the book of GENESIS then you have to believe that all plants and vegetation were placed here by God himself. He covered the earth in seed and fruit bearing plants because it was pleasing to him. What part of this is cloudy......ARE you telling me that God made a mistake when he created marijuana. Who is the government to come along in the past hundred years and interpret how we should use Gods' creation? PERIOD.

I don't think "Christians" are to blame--their leaders should all be taken out back of the church and beaten though!

Modern day Christian leaders are the definition of hypocrisy. It's too bad that their followers are the definition of sheep.

When will Christians rise up and take back their religion from these scoundrels? Oh wait, I guess the same could be said about every single American with regards to our government, huh?

Ah well, I guess ALL people are idiots or else we wouldn't be in any of the mess we are today.

Never mind my rhetoric, go back to grazing... nothing to see here.....

He is high on opium, yet look down on those who use marijuana :)

being drunk on themselves. Christianity should be between the Christian and his God. But that is not enough for most of them, they want rules imposed on the rest of the country, as they feel they are required to abide by.

It was the Christian Right that gave us George W. Bush twice. I personally am sick and tired of the Christian Right movement, who refuses to see the importance of FREEDOM of Religion. Or in down to earth terms "Freedom from another’s religion".

One of these days their wishes might come true, that the powers that be will force another religion on them (Muslim, or what-ever).

Even Jesus said "The men of this world (non=believers) have more wisdom than the men of light (believers), Jesus of course was talking about money issues, but the same can be said about the rest of life.

As a Christian I can honestly say that that many Christians today are some of the stupidest people I know. Absolute simpletons!

And to make worse, my personal opinion about the end times is that these Christian simpletons will actually usher in the antichrist, and it will NOT be the atheists!

An I know many Christians who feel the same ways i do!

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hey mister thompson, why don't we make Christianity illegal? Think that is ridiculous? well, so are pot laws. Marijuana is a seed baring plant, hence it is in the bible. Look it the fuck up. Marijuana can be very spiritual, it that not what christianity is about? As for Marijuana being detrimental, where are your arguments? Where is the proof? The only thing detrimental is how laws have forced people to kill and steal. Fuck you mister thompson. You can live your life how you want to, don't tell me how to live mine.

that the sins, commandments and rules that are laid out by religious organizations probably are distillations of human behaviors over time. Thousands of years of "civilization" has shown that certain behaviors can be detrimental to both the individual and then the collective. Hence, the desire for commandments, sins, rules, directives, etc. The bottom line (to me) is that probably these rules were originally meted out in the best interest of the individual (and ulitimately the collective), and were probably meant as healthy guidelines. Let's be real, there is nothing more personal than personal salvation, and many of the the items that Christians like to legislate are areas wherein abuse of said directives, guidelines, etc is likely to cause personal angst, sadness, etc. But it's not an offense to God, God is just sad that we have been given agency and with that agency are choosing poorly. God's love is still unconditional. God will still love us (the 'sinner'), we will just not be using our God given powers and resources as wisely as God would like. In the process of going from a Love based religion, Christianity, (like most beauracratic endevours) insisted on using the good intentions paradigm... that turned into a first class theological power grab. All that said, I am a middle-aged, mother of three, born and raised in a rigid/intense Christian Faith, I regularly attend and participate in the religion of my ancestors, AND I absolutely feel that government is the wrong direction for dealing with vices. I agree with the above posts that point to the hypocricy of many religious organizations (read:Christians). Hypocricy does for Christianity what the Republicans have done for Political Policy.... shows little or no credibility. It is my earnest prayer and meditation that more Christians will start behaving like Christ of the New Testament who ushered in the Higher Law, and not the Eye for an Eye God of the Old Testament. [Let's leave that to the other Old Testament based religions, eh?:)].