It's becoming more common for the right wing to advocate for recreational drug use, and also to refuse medical treatment.
I am convinced that this comes from controlled opposition.*
Let's put aside whatever Alex Jones and Fox News told you to believe for a minute, and look at things objectively.
What is marijuana? A drug that affects your cognition. It's also very commonly known as a gateway drug. Your entire side is sitting there, doped up on (metaphorical) happy pills, unable to discern the truth because you're buzzed, giggling and partaking in gluttony ("munchies") while your opposition is awake, alert, and free to act the entire time. Then there are those for whom marijuana isn't enough. You then run the risk of overdosing (though minors and certain adults can even overdose on just weed) and dying.
If this weren't enough, you're being led to be skeptical of life-saving medicine. The right is full of people who claim to be Christians, yet the devil can easily mislead you into "putting God to the test" by saying, "God will protect me from illness". He may [sometimes], but He is under [NO OBLIGATION TO DO SO]. If He will allow a thorn* to even strike Paul, why would any of you be exempt? The Bible makes it clear that even faithful Christians will face illness and hardship, yet you refuse vaccines and medication based on a Satanic teaching. So then, your side is not only doped up and ineffective in action, not only being misled with heresy, but is also dying off in droves, while the opposition lives on.
Does this sound like the effective work of a determined, morally upright army? Is this how you want to be portrayed in history? If your opposition were doing the same things you are, sitting around high and dying by the hundreds of thousands without you having to even lift a finger, would you really consider them to be "winning"? Would you consider yourself to be "losing"?
This is the effect of controlled opposition. You're repeating utter nonsense that people told you, just in a confident, authoritative voice. But confidence and authority don't make something true. Truth makes something true.
So then, if you're a right-winger and an unbeliever, first of all I* encourage you to convert. If you don't know, I was not always Christian. I was saved 10 years ago, and so I speak to you from the position of an outsider: there is no truth outside of the christian God. It is all like sand - temporary, uncertain, fleeting, always changing. Only God has the ability to organize it all into something trustworthy and comprehensible. If you will not, I can't tell you what to do. But for those on the right who are willing to claim Christ, it's long past time to put aside this worldly propaganda. We are called to be wise as serpents, and there is no wisdom in taking the word of mankind at face value. Them telling you something and then saying "Christ said so" doesn't mean Christ actually said so. It's easy to lie. Either Christ is your shepherd, or somebody else is your shepherd. Time is running out for all of us. Which will it be?
*Notes:
1) I do not see the world as a right-and-left dichotomy. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you really can't help yourself (I am not ashamed of that word), but I am convinced the right and left are run by the same people. Two sides of the same coin, basically. Thus the people creating this "controlled opposition" are not so-called "lefties", but rather, your bog-standard corporate psychopaths who pull the strings on both sides to get whatever they want, be it money, influence, whatever. As we speak, they are doing the exact same thing to the left, but this particular post won't focus on that.
2) There is a lot of debate about what the thorn in Paul's side means / stands for. This is irrelevant. The point is that whatever it was, it created a great struggle for Paul, and that it still served a God-ordained purpose.
3) This post was inspired by direct instruction from God. I have no idea how well I communicated the ideas He wanted me to express. It'll never be perfect because I am not perfect, but prayerfully, it's good enough.
