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Similarly, we are against dope smoking, acid toting, so called
shamans. We are against the Church of England, for a monarch stands
at its head. We are against the Catholic Church and its hypocritical
riches. We are Protestant in our Christianity, although we do not
embrace the established sects. We are for the reality beyond the
appearance.
All we know of “the mystical wing of Islam” is what we have read in a book.
Witches and pagans have no provenance in the modern world. It is folly to
confuse drug inspired experiences with the fruits of religious devotion. We know
little more of the Church of England and the Catholic Church than we do of “the
mystical wing of Islam”. The problem with the reality beyond the appearance is
that it might not be a reality at all.
We are against psychiatric drugs, with the exception of the
benzodiazepines, for they go down well with a pint. We are against
drugs that make your body twist and bow down.
Millions of people around the world benefit from taking psychiatric drugs. These
drugs can be helpful in easing mental distress, and as such they should be
applauded. A pint and a couple of Valium may have been a delight in the past, but
who knows how it would strike us now? Drugs that make one twist and bow are
drugs that have been put to an incorrect use.
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Mongzone. A boy band consisting of people with severe learning
disabilities (it must surely exist already, sponsored by a community
arts initiative).
This is the kind of deplorable notion favoured by newspaper columnists. It rests
upon the assumption that the writer and his readers share a favoured state of being
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