"Forcing a woman to marry her rapist" does not mean the same thing in a 21st-Century developed nation as it did back in the desert three-thousand years ago.
Why assume that God tampered with plants to make them produce such chemicals?
You know we'll have an evolutionary explanation eventually. Just wait.
Still, drugs can be used as a spiritual aid.
Just take it easy.
Until you cite sources, I won't take you seriously.
As for me, I think smoking tobacco is no good. It's a bad habit and it's unhealthy.
But it should be allowed in certain places, sure. Just because some don't like it, doesn't mean no one should have the right. Again, in some places.
Yeah... "powers behind the shapes"? Give me a break. That's superstition to the nth degree. I always thought that the Bible takes a hard anti-superstition stance, but I guess not everyone sees it that way.
So, in reality, whether man is ascending or God is descending only depends on your frame...
People believe all sorts of things.
Just because you're educated enough and have a wide enough worldview to be able to build enough critical thinking to question and, ultimately, dispel beliefs like this, doesn't mean that everyone else has had such opportunities, run on sentence.
Are you trying to tell a group of 2 billion people what they should believe, as well as telling them that they are not part of that group (which is not a single group, but over 30,000 groups) if they don't?
If no, then you need to be more clear.
If yes, then... I don't know what to tell you.
Yes.
Now, hold on, where's the logic in the...?
But wait, what about the fact that...?
You know what, I'm not even going to ask.
This is stupid on so many levels.