Drugs damage relationship with God
Drug use damages a person's relationship with God.
Peter Cohen, Testimony before the Canadian Senate’s Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, 28 May 2001.
‘The Reformation[’s]..new ideology was that people had an individual relationship to God. They were now able to seek salvation for themselves, rather than through the church…’ Within the Protestant tradition, force like sexuality, alcohol and drugs came to be seen as powers that threatened this autonomy and damaged the relationship with God.