Was it uncharitable when Christ made a whip out of rope, knocked over the market tables at The Temple, and called the Pharisees “blind guides, white washed tombs full of dead men’s bones”? What is uncharitable in your opinion is not necessarily uncharitable in anothers. But I will honestly take your suggestion into consideration.
On this thread? I’m the one who started it. You’re right about assuming the worse just after having engaged the same person minutes earlier in another thread about “being mad at fellow Catholics. Deal with it.” My assuming didn’t come out of nowhere. There actually is a precedent.
I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but I have heard this particular Scripture passage quoted before, and always by someone who has just lost their temper and is being called on the carpet for it. (And for the record I’ve tried to use it myself, lest I be accused of hypocrisy.
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, there is this pesky criminal element you have to deal with, and that probably would constitute a few occasions of sin.Well, the knife cuts all ways. I am “mad at my fellow Catholics. Deal with it,” but for multiple reasons.
Not necissarily depending upon the state. Not sure of the laws where you are, but in Wisconsin cases involving drugs are not prosecuted under operating while intoxicated. We have a law that makes “operating with a detectable amount of a restricted controlled substance” illegal. Whether or not the person is “under the influence” of the substance is irrelevant. So as long as you can detect it, it’s illegal.
Which state was it that recently legalized possession of small quantity of marijuana for medicinal reasons - Michigan or Wisconsin?
You are so right about that. I recently saw on a tape of the show “The Doctors” about Salvia … common sense isn’t so common.Well in Maryland Marijuana is legal for therapeutic use, but, strangely, the hallucinogen Salvia is legal, even for people under 18! And that stuff will mess you up… have you seeing all kinds of things, out-of-body experiences, identifying with inanimate objects, etc.
And yet Marijuana’s illegal? Geez, that seems backwards.
And the fact that the law isn’t up on some drugs makes it OK for them to legalise others?
I haven’'t read all the posts, but I’ll say this, I smoked it a lot years ago. I believe it and other drugs open you right up to invasion by spirits that are not from above. That is something God would not want you to have any part in, don’t you think? Anything that keeps his spirit from being able to speak clearly to us is also wrong, I think.
Someone who uses common sense doesn’t think that a person who is OK with legalizing marijuana for medicinal reasons is also OK with giving a blank check to all other drugs. I’m not for going back to Prohibition either. Get real yourself.
frankly i stopped doing more than a cursory scanning of the thread because people kept presenting the same arguments long after they were defeated.
In my younger days i have made some dreadful mistakes thanj you very much. My argument was simple and valid. If you choose to think we can pick and chosse which laws to follow you are sadly mistaken. We are to follow laws not in conflict with teachings of the CHurc, and the illegalization of drugs is not in conflict.
i havent read your argument but from the qoute below i can see you are offering the same as many others.
we do it all the time. morality cannot be decided by geography. if thats true, than to be moral all i have to do is step across a state line, but thats my point that argument has been knocked down already, and people don’t read the thread and repost it.
as above that argument is defeated by stepping over a state line.
And when you ask them to read previous postings before engaging on the subject, they act indignant and insulted.
And according to you, neither have I added anything of value to any thread - but each person has the right to their own opinon.
Well aren’t you modest … Wardspeedpetey then.