WHAT WOULD GOD WANT?

Editor:

Re: Attack unnecessary, Feedback, the Observer, Nov. 15.

Arthur Topham's letter glorifies the use of marijuana as a tremendous
God-given gift to society.

A more direct interpretation of the Bible, in fact, proves God could
indeed have provided us with Topham's "sacred weed" not as a gift,
but as a curse. Moreover, God dearly wants us to keep marijuana
illegal even in the glaring absence of any solid scientific basis to
make that decision. In fact, alpha and omega, the beginning and the
end of the Bible make this abundantly clear.

In the beginning, on page 3 of the Bible (Genesis Book 4), God shows
us Adam and Eve's two sons, Cain and Seth, populated the entire
world. At the end, on the last page of the Bible (Revelations Book
22, verses 18 and 19), God tells us the Bible is complete and that
anyone who adds or takes away from it shall be condemned to the
plagues of Hell.

Since Adam and Eve didn't have any daughters, Cain and Seth must have
procreated with women from subsequent generations. Christian
Scientists have coined the term "Post Generational Procreation" to
explain the phenomenon. Post Generational Procreation, the righteous
male equivalent of the Virgin Birth is indeed a miracle.

Even Topham must accept if "Post Generational Procreation" is
possible, God could surely want us to criminalize marijuana centuries
before any solid scientific consensus is reached to make that decision.

Moreover, page 10 of the Bible (Genesis Book 17) shows us Abraham,
the very father of Judaism, and by extension the Christian Church,
circumcised himself at the age of 99 to show us how to make our
Covenant with God.

God clearly tells us, through Abraham, that "the uncircumcised man
child whose flesh of the foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall
be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant" and will be
condemned to hell (Genesis Book 17, verse 14).

The searing pain Abraham must have endured, like the pain of Jesus on
the cross, is proof God indeed has righteous powers in both space and time.

So there it is, absolute proof -- from the Bible itself -- that God
wants us to continue persecuting people who use marijuana; and He is
in no way interested, as Topham would have us believe, in glorifying
potheads as having a "superior level of consciousness".

Michael Hunt-Hertz

Quesnel