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Making Marijuana a Mortal Sin
Oct. 18th, 2005 12:29 pm♠
"It's all about accountability," the angel Nathanael said. "The rule of the Lord affords the complementary blessings of freedom and responsibility, and provides the governing framework under which man is punished or rewarded according to his deeds. The rules are very simple: You do the crime, you do the time. Eternity, in this case."
... Horowitz said that while drug offenders are literally rotting away in Hell, serial killers and other dangerous sinners are receiving "mere Purgatorial sentences, thanks to the asking-for-forgiveness loophole." Purgatory is a minimum-security state of limbo that affords its occupants the opportunity to repent their sins and eventually gain admittance to Heaven on good behavior.
"Drug offenders, many of whom have committed no prior mortal sin, rack up infinite consecutive life sentences," Horowitz said. "Meanwhile, rapists say they're sorry, recite a few Hail Marys, and wind up basking in God's divine radiance within 10 years."
-- The Onion, "Report: 92 Percent Of Souls In Hell There On Drug Charges"
Andrew Sullivan pointed the way to this spoof on the Administration's War on Drugs on the same day that he points out a report by the Marijuana Policy Project that concludes that 2004 saw more marijuana arrests (771,605) than arrests for violent crime (590,258), and that eighty-nine percent of these marijuana arrests were for mere possession.
Although one would like to think that this could be a reflection of America's low rate of violent crimes, this is more likely another good indication of the Administration's misplaced priorities - that distortive, warped lens through which our conservatives view problems and policies. When it comes to this War on Drugs, I was going to say let's make love, not war, until I remembered that we also have a War on Porn going on. We obviously do not have enough wars going on that we must make more up.
Monk is one to believe that life is a war of all against all, but this is too much even for his own Hobbesian heart.
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"It's all about accountability," the angel Nathanael said. "The rule of the Lord affords the complementary blessings of freedom and responsibility, and provides the governing framework under which man is punished or rewarded according to his deeds. The rules are very simple: You do the crime, you do the time. Eternity, in this case."
... Horowitz said that while drug offenders are literally rotting away in Hell, serial killers and other dangerous sinners are receiving "mere Purgatorial sentences, thanks to the asking-for-forgiveness loophole." Purgatory is a minimum-security state of limbo that affords its occupants the opportunity to repent their sins and eventually gain admittance to Heaven on good behavior.
"Drug offenders, many of whom have committed no prior mortal sin, rack up infinite consecutive life sentences," Horowitz said. "Meanwhile, rapists say they're sorry, recite a few Hail Marys, and wind up basking in God's divine radiance within 10 years."
-- The Onion, "Report: 92 Percent Of Souls In Hell There On Drug Charges"
Andrew Sullivan pointed the way to this spoof on the Administration's War on Drugs on the same day that he points out a report by the Marijuana Policy Project that concludes that 2004 saw more marijuana arrests (771,605) than arrests for violent crime (590,258), and that eighty-nine percent of these marijuana arrests were for mere possession.
Although one would like to think that this could be a reflection of America's low rate of violent crimes, this is more likely another good indication of the Administration's misplaced priorities - that distortive, warped lens through which our conservatives view problems and policies. When it comes to this War on Drugs, I was going to say let's make love, not war, until I remembered that we also have a War on Porn going on. We obviously do not have enough wars going on that we must make more up.
Monk is one to believe that life is a war of all against all, but this is too much even for his own Hobbesian heart.
