Awright, I will say it: I hate drugs. They suck. Period and end of discussion. Most of ye have probably not had the experience, at least not in recent years, of working a low-grade retail job in a drug-riddled decayed mill town, where a substantial percentage of the clientele are either folks who have ruined their own lives with drugs (yes, including whaccky tobaccky), or are family members caught in the netherworld of a loved one who has done this. And these people are by-and-large poor, uneducated, casualties of the new economic America, not rich, entitled jocks whose very fame and popularity makes them role models, sadly, for people like the kids here in Rusty City.
And, of course, the Prince of Peace sends unrepentant homosexuals to Hell, as Paul, writing under the inspiration of that Prince's Spirit, makes clear enough, in Romans 1. No one has died and authorized me to ignore this.
I am a recovering drug addict myself and lost a sister to meth. I know well the ravages of mind-altering substances.
In in your mind Griner's mistake of carrying a tiny amount of hashish oil is comparable to your experiences?
My extended Boomer family was ravaged by alcoholism, as is my wife's. None were rich jocks. My grandfather died in an alcoholic stupor. They would all go off on the evils of drugs. They looked at drugs as a sociological failure completely separated from their own overt addictions. Drug addicts were to be looked down upon. Wine, anyone? Very ironic.
You know, kay, I know virtually nothing about psychology except those theories that relate to literary criticism, and I only have a functional grasp on history, but I do know what the great authors on American slavery (W.E.B. Dubois, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler) all write about how slavery hurts not only the enslaved but also the slave owners. Slavery destroys the owner through hate and power. We are talking about Christians, you know, as sure of their theological bigotries as you are about yours.
I see you somehow as an analogy.
How does any of this make your life better? You appear to be seething with resentment and rage, and your Prince of Peace is a brutal sociopath.
You've largely lost any "power" that the Christian community once might have had over the gay community, which leaves you with just your hate, which for some reason you come here to vent.
I would give you the same advice I gave Mahag----seek help.
