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God v. Pot

Would you rather have your child smoking pot or believing in god?

  • Smoking pot.

    Votes: 64 64.0%

  • Believing in God.

    Votes: 24 24.0%

  • On Planet X (HOTH) Pot is God.

    Votes: 12 12.0%
  • Total voters
    100
I think people are adding in extra context. In a vacuum, which is worse? In the US you go to jail for smoking pot. In Belgium you don't. In North Korea you get arrested for being Christian, in the US you don't. All things being equal I think magical thinking is more dangerous than pot smoking as the average teenager would practice it.
 
quixotecoyote said:
I think people are adding in extra context. In a vacuum, which is worse? In the US you go to jail for smoking pot. In Belgium you don't. In North Korea you get arrested for being Christian, in the US you don't. All things being equal I think magical thinking is more dangerous than pot smoking as the average teenager would practice it.
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Very good points, of course. I was thinking of my own kids, therefore the laws in the US. But good thinking, indeed.
 
They both might be characterized as habit forming, and posing a danger of going on to "hard stuff," but I voted God just to be a little contrarian. It's easier to argue them out of that one later.

Besides, God is still legal and carries no known cancer risks.

I'd rather of course that they gave each of the options serious consideration, because I think with serious and mature consideration they'd wind up depending on neither.
 
I've been (quietly) reading and voting on these polls for a while now, and I have to admit that I have been confused at times over the "Planet X" choices.

On Planet X (HOTH) Pot is God.
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Now it is so very clear.
 
I agree about not wanting to choose between 2 evils. Each argument has it's pro's an cons (no one I know has forgotten to go to work because they prayed too much the night before; no one's ever strapped a bomb to their chest to advocate marijuana..)
 
Gregoire said:
Believing in God can mean so many different things.
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God is the name of the Judeo-Christian god, believing in God doesn't mean many different things it means accepting Judaism or Christianity.

Sorry to be pedantic ;)
 
I'd rather that my children believed in God. You know ... the Supreme Being that created Mary-Jew-Wanna in the first place! Besides, there is no Commandment or Mitzvot that declares "Thou Shalt Not Enjoy My Evil Weed," now is there?

Grass is just God's way of saying "High!"
 
I find it ironic that following the law is considered a valid reason to object to pot smoking considering that atheistic thoughts were once banned by law and pot smoking was once not.
 
I voted for believe in god.

A child not using pot is more likely to learn in school, and developing his intellect is key to abandoning religion later in life.

Worked that way for me anyway.

(Watch, now my kid will probably pipe up about how much pot he smoked in school that I never knew about...)
 
Just don't inhale!

Oh, if only King Solomon with his Holy Ghost Wisdom were here today to resolve this matter for us! :idea:

Hmmmm. If Jesus had smoked pot, would that have been considered a Holy Smoke? :relieved:
 
zooloo said:
God is the name of the Judeo-Christian god, believing in God doesn't mean many different things it means accepting Judaism or Christianity.

Sorry to be pedantic ;)
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Thank you for your response.

I have thought about this, but I don't honestly understand why you would say this. I have met people who are not Jews or Christians who say they believe in "God". I had a friend whose dad was Hindu and actually used the term "God" as well as the lesser "gods". I have met people who are completely antireligion who still say they believe in "God". And don't Deists call their Supreme Being "God"?
 
Gregoire said:
Thank you for your response.

I have thought about this, but I don't honestly understand why you would say this. I have met people who are not Jews or Christians who say they believe in "God". I had a friend whose dad was Hindu and actually used the term "God" as well as the lesser "gods". I have met people who are completely antireligion who still say they believe in "God". And don't Deists call their Supreme Being "God"?
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People may misuse a something but that doesn't make it right.

God is the name of a god, a very specific god.

If someone anti-religious uses the term God to mean a god they are simply showing a cultural bias. That cultural bias is why I would draw attention to misusing the name God - in that specific instance that the concept of God is a local cultural idea, if they hadn't been brought up within that cultural bias they wouldn't be saying "I believe in God".

It is easy to assume that one's culture is "true" so we must take care to avoid such thinking.
 
I'd take the pot.

FAR less addictive (I have yet to meet someone that's actually addicted to pot), and while it may distort the mind, it does so in fun and interesting ways. God gets old after the seventh mass.
 
In life sometimes one is forced to choose between two less than ideal options.

Pussying out of the question isn't, despite what some people seem to think, very clever at all.
 
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