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You may or may not have heard of British singer Lily Allen (she’s much more famous across the pond). She’s a celebrity and notorious drug-user who recently said the following about drugs, Christianity, and the economy:
Criticising the ‘hysteria’ around cocaine, she said: “The only story is that drugs are bad and they will kill you – you will become a prostitute, a rapist or a dealer. But that’s not true. I know lots of people who take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work. But we never hear that side of the story. I wish people wouldn’t sensationalise it. Some people are just bad at taking drugs.”
… Speaking about religion in the interview with Word magazine, Lily continued: “I don’t like Christianity much.
“I was brought up in a Catholic school and they told me gays, adultery and drugs were bad.
“All my mum’s friends were gay, my dad was having affairs and there were drugs in the house when I was a kid, so it was a bit cruel.”
Even record label EMI didn’t escape Lily’s wrath – as she talked candidly about her earnings.
She added: “I got £50,000 for my first album and I sold a lot of records.
“Twenty years ago, I’d have been booked in at the Ritz with five grams of cocaine on my table and 10 bunches of flowers. Some new clothes. A chauffeur on 24-hour call.
“Now I’m lucky to get an Oyster card. I ask for a hotel in Paris and I get a two-star place in the eighth arrondissement on my own.
“I’m like: ‘Do you want me to get raped and killed?’”
Yes… celebrities! These are the people we should be looking up to!!
fox says: “I was brought up in a Catholic school and they told me gays, adultery and drugs were bad.
“All my mum’s friends were gay, my dad was having affairs and there were drugs in the house when I was a kid, so it was a bit cruel.”
lmao…so because your dad was having affairs, that means that adultery isn’t bad and that Christianity is wrong? Crackbaby.
Andrew says: It is the truth. Almost all people who have objections to Christainity have them because they feel they have been hurt in past by something they percieve to be Christianity. The hypocritical parent who makes their kid go to church is Christian school is the classic example.
Jesse in South FL says: I’ve lived my entire life in a rural South Florida town about 90 miles from Miami, and cocaine is EVERYWHERE here. I’d be willing to bet at LEAST 50% of the people here between 18-45 have done it. Hell, when I was a kid our county sheriff (my friend’s grandpa) was arrested in a huge DEA bust for smuggling the stuff in and went to prison, along with a lot of other regular everday people who were involved in it. I did it for a few years, from the age of 20 till I was arrested for it at 25 (which was two years ago). My older brother was arrested for trafficking, got two years house arrest, five years probation, and a $57,000 fine (the highest possible for his charges).
So, with all that said, it’s safe to say I have a little bit of credibility here and know a thing or two about the drug…and make no mistake about it, cocaine is BAD. I’ve drank my share of beer (still do) and smoked my share of pot (um…no comment) and neither one has EVER made me feel like an actual piece of garbage. Cocaine was always fun at first, but when you’re standing out in the front yard or on the front porch or riding around in the woods and the sun is coming up and you’ve drank two cases of beer and haven’t been to bed yet and your nose won’t stop running and you can’t stop making stupid faces, you really start to feel like you’re ruining your life. Then of course you forget about it by the next weekend and do it all over again. I only did it two or three times a month, but I’ve got dear friends who do it four to five nights a week, and I’ve none some folks over the years who do it every single day. We call them “lifers”-people who’ve been doing it for a long time but don’t have the sense to stop. These are the same people who fall over and die from a heart attack at 50 years old (this very thing happen to a friend’s dad about two months ago). Even though I had to pay legal fees, probation fees, and had a ten o’clock curfew for almost two years, (not to mention damage to my reputation), I still know in my heart that getting arrested was one of the best things that ever happened to me. Even though I didn’t do it very often (relatively speaking), I still was unable to stop doing it. Granted, I never tried very hard to quit, but I kept putting it off because when you get out to the bar or a barbecue with your friends and have a few beers, you immediately start looking for it, trying to find out who’s got it and how much you can get. I was probably not going to stop any other way and I believe this was God’s way of getting me to quit. I haven’t done it since (neither had my brother since his arrest) and we never will again. Unfortunately, there are some people I care about very much who haven’t had that awakening yet and perhaps never will until it’s too late.
So if ANYBODY says it’s not that bad, they either haven’t done it enough to understand or are in complete and total denial. Period.
Jesse in South FL says: “and I’ve none some folks over the years ”
EDIT: I’ve KNOWN some folks over the years.
Sheesh, what a doofus.
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