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.
I think it depends, there are a lot of angles to see this from.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think there's enough confirmation on the medical benefits of marijuana/cannabis/weed/whatever you want to call it for it to be used in that context. The big argument I see from most of the Christian community is that this point is moot because you can get high on it.
But you can also get drunk on wine, and the Bible refers to it many times as a blessing. There are also references to "fortified" wine in the Bible, and it's never expressed what it was fortified with. I'm not saying it's weed, I'm saying that we don't know. However - drunkenness is also clearly referred to as a sin.
Pain medication after surgery - should people not touch it at all because they can get high on it? Or get addicted to it? Most Christians would say no, you're in pain after surgery or a broken bone or something, use that tool until you're better, then stop. Alcohol used to be used in this context, but it's been replaced with all of the modern medications.
There's a very specific thing to using things like that medicinally though - you don't go around advertising how messed up you are by the pain pills, you shouldn't display drunkenness (or be drunk at all), and on that - if you use marijuana medicinally, you shouldn't go around stoned talking about how baked you are.
But the medical applications, especially of compounds in the plant that don't cause you to be high in any way - CBD, CBG, CBN, and really the ones that get people high too - are useful. Cancer, Seizures, Depression, Anxiety. I'm saying: Don't get stoned, I'd equate that with drunkenness because it really does effect cognition and clarity, but if it helps a chronic medical issue? Use it as the medicine that it is. Hopefully this makes sense, because I don't disagree with you on any of that.
Minimum wage is a gateway drug, too.
All that being said - I realize this wasn't the main point of your post here. It's that these things are being used in Spiritual Warfare as a weapon to sedate one side that would otherwise be fighting against another. I would agree on this point for the most part, but I don't think it's as readily obvious as it would seem. I think that opiates and benzodiazepines are a much more common and effective weapon being used in this regard.
While I think it is possible, despite colloquial arguments denying as much, that it is possible to overdose (psychotic reactions, panic attacks, etc) on marijuana, the likelihood of causing someone to die is low. Not the case with opiates and benzodiazepines, which will kill someone easily.
Anyway - I certainly agree with your points on recreational drug use. I think it's bizarre that there seems to be a a surge in support from people on the right, which seems to be a large pendulum swing in the opposite direction from where it was even just a decade ago. However, I'm against anything that forces people to comply. We have free will for a reason.
I also agree that it's totally bananas for people to eschew actual medications backed by organic chemistry and doctors in favor of waving a dead chicken over a vat of herbs and spices. There's a reason we don't have the black plague or Polio to worry about anymore. That whole portion Christian claimants strikes me as displaying a bizarre form of cognitive dissonance with objective reality.
I hope you don't mind my comment, thanks for your posts.
I definitely understand and empathize with marijuana use on a medicinal level. Trust me, I only denounce it as a recreational drug. I feel this way about all recreational drug use, but only specified marijuana because it's the most relevant in our culture/discourse at the moment. Basically, opiates are a serious problem, but you don't see them mentioned in right-wing political discourse so I left it go for now. With marijuana, the entire world is seemingly being gaslit using the same gateway drug and related rhetoric we were supposed to outgrow in the 80s.
Delete"Minimum wage is a gateway drug, too." -- Again, only didn't mention it because it's not really relevant to this *specific* topic, but it is very true and worth repeating / remembering.
It's not the first time a political party has very rapidly changed position, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckxLgsUQmHg