Defending Sin

     If people defended righteousness as they defend sin, God  would  be well-pleased. Just look at what foolish people defend: homosexuality, abortion, unruliness (mobs), drug use, alcohol, and now even pedophilia in some cases. The message being sent is that people know more than God. 
     Real stupidity is the legalization of sinful acts. Let's take alcohol, for instance: at one time hard liquor was illegal. "They" said that didn't work because of the crime involved. So what did they do? Made it legal again. My question: Is that working? It is estimated that 88,000 people die from alcohol related deaths in the United States each year. In 2014 almost 10,000 people died from alcohol related traffic accidents. ("Alcohol Facts and Statistics"; National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Prevention).
     Only 55,000 Americans died in Viet-Nam which lasted 20 years (National Archives). That is an average of 2750 deaths per year, yet people took to the streets in protest! Why, then, do those who say they are sane condemn war but consume alcohol? 86% of people say they have. That is stupidity! How many people would walk through a minefield in Viet-Nam even today? Maybe two or three. The possibility of death by alcohol is a minefield!
     Americans are to be commended though: finally after 300 years, they caught on. Tobacco kills and the tobacco lobby lied. Smoking cigarettes is no longer considered a wise thing to do, and many hate tobacco smoke. They have come to realize that smoking cigarettes reduces lifespan. Only addicts continue to smoke. Many wish they could quit but don't have the will power to do so. Still, others commence cigarette smoking at a young age because they either don't think of death or that they will quit sometime before it does their damage. They are foolish people. Winston is a bad guy, yet people turn to "him" and his cool friend "Light" to settle their nerves.
     For years, the tobacco industry and those who make money off gullible people, convinced Joe Public that cigarette smoking was cool, satisfying, and even healthy. The world bought the lie, and many lie dead in their graves because of it. My brother Rich, a smoker, was killed by liars who pimped their whore tobacco on him early on.
     There are people who still pimp their prostitutes. There are always prostitutes, and their pimps dress them up presentable for all to lust after. Mary Jane is the whore in vogue right now. Everyone wants her, it seems, and even want to make her prostitution legal. Why would Joe Public even want that whore? For the illicit money she can make. In states where her prostitution has been legalized, the slut stands on the street corner each day prostituting for her pimps - those who make money off the foolishness of the public; those who have been beguiled.
     What does Mary Jane have to offer? It seems that it is a fun night but she is just a whore; all she has to offer is a social disease, one that can destroy. Johns deny that she is infectious just as tobacco users thought their whore had a clean bill of health; she too was legal wasn't she?
    Legality does not make things safe, useful, nor good. As we can see, alcohol kills people, yet even Christians still have it in their pantry. They don't even put it in the shed with the rat -poison. It is there for the children to poison themselves because users "justify" their habits: "It's legal aint it?" Abortion is legal too, but anyone except fools know that abortion kills innocent children!
     One man argued that moral issues cannot be legislated. If that was true, then murder should be legal. Unfortunately for those who cannot defend themselves it is legal. Using his argument, pedophilia should be legal because it is a moral issue. That man's argument was stupid, and when I confronted him, he quickly backed down and admitted his error. That took courage because people get all puffed up in their false knowledge.
    What else are we going to make legal? Same-sex marriage is now. Who's to say that bestiality should not be? The door to that is now open. Some European countries allow brother-sister marriage. Who can say that is wrong because that door is now open as well? Anything can be legalized but that does not make it right! The "final solution" for the Jews was legal in Germany and many millions were murdered. Jews are still being murdered just because they are Jews. But it was legal!
    Slavery was legal but that did not make slavery right. Slaveholders were no better than pimps who prostituted people for gain. People accepted slavery because it had been institutionalized. Because it had always been done seemed to make it acceptable. It was not! Legalization of wrongs does not make wrong things good nor acceptable. That goes for anything.
     Abortion has been legalized and stamped APPROVED by the Supreme Court of the USA. They call that "established law". Well, negroes as property was also established law. That evil law was changed. Abortion is said to be established law. It too can be changed, and must be!
    Legalization of marijuana is established law in some states although it is still a federal crime. That condition is called "nullification". That's what the southern states did when the Supreme Court passed laws in which the states disagreed. Colorado, California, and all the others should be punished for their nullification just as the southern states were for theirs. Laws are to protect innocent people and fools. The Supreme Court agreeing something is law does not overrule the true Supreme Court - God's court.
     Mankind has a genetic problem; they all do what they want to do, then complain about the consequences of it. "The wages of sin is death" (Rom 6:23). Those were words inspired by God. They are the argument against the Serpent who said, "You surely will  not die!" (Gen 3:4). Now who are you going to believe: THE Pimp or the Savior? Unfortunately mankind's inclinations are to believe the Pimp. Although God's only transparent motive is love, the Pimp's ulterior motive is gain.
     God wants you to be His but the Pimp desires to have and to hold you in bondage. He must have you to diminish God, and like the complacent Jews, you walk to your own death chamber. Never... ever defend sin! By defending the law of sin, you diminish the Law of God. The latter is safety and the former is dangerous.