Day 3: My View on Drugs and Alochol

I feel this topic has been wildly over-blogged about, but I shall faithfully do it anyway.

I don't really have a lot to say about drugs that doesn't sound preachy. The Bible doesn't specifically say anything about drugs specifically, but it does say lots about authority and submitting to it. As Christians we are supposed to submit to the authority because all authority is given by God. God has placed rulers above us for a reason (Yes, even the horrid rulers - How many times did God use Nebuchadnezzar to punish the Israelites?), and submitting to His authority brings blessing. Also, submitting to government authority means you can sleep at night with a clear conscious, with out having to worry about whether or not you are going to get arrested tomorrow. All that being said, drugs are illegal in the U.S. As such, we shouldn't use them.

Even if you don't think submitting to authority is a good enough reason not to do drugs, the Bible also says that our body is a temple that the very Spirit of God lives in. Drugs do horrid things to people's bodies, which is in turn destroying something that God values highly. Therefore, doing drugs makes God sad.

Alcohol, on the other hand, is not a bad thing when used in moderation. When you drink so much that you are dog drunk and have lost all sense of yourself and what is right or wrong and are killing brain cells by the second, that is taking something good and blowing it so much out of proportion that it becomes a bad thing. People who are that drunk kill innocent people. People who are that drunk destroy property. People who are that drunk have sex with random people (which they wouldn't have done otherwise). People who are that drunk say things they regret in the morning - if they even remember it. Drinking out of moderation is flat out wrong (and stupid to boot).

Does that mean that it's wrong to have a margarita with your dinner? Or to have a glass of champagne at a wedding? No. Jesus himself drank wine - he even turned water into wine. Clearly, if wine were wrong, Jesus wouldn't have condoned it so frequently. He even mentioned how he was going to drink wine with God the Father once he ascended back into Heaven. That's a pretty clear statement that wine in moderation is okay.

So here's the skinny: Don't do drugs, it's dumb. Drink some wine with your Italian dinner, just don't get drunk.