Having a hard time finding anything on this. Outsiders perspective would put anti-alcohol in line with Christianity..
What’s going on over there?
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There is absolutely nothing Christian about anti-alcohol campaigns. Christians are only called to consume in moderation. They are not commanded to be teetotalers and some of us serve messwine.
Interesting. My viewpoint is definitely influenced by being brought up in a dry Protestant church which advocated abstaining from alcohol. Didn’t expect this denominational differences in alcohol consumption rabbit hole this morning…
Jesus turned water into wine and drank wine regularly.
Even though that was acknowledged, it was “the wise and moral” choice to abstain.
Much variation within a narrow subject matter. I regularly have to remind myself that the teachings of some churches aim to override or obscure the teachings of Christ.
Some things are just ethnic traditions that aren't part of the underlying religion, but don't directly conflict with it and have become ethnically tied together. There's nothing wrong with that, so long as you know which is which.
WASPs often prohibited alcohol because they associated it with the Irish and Italian Catholic working class (this Prohibition was eventually overturned). Sort of the way penalties for crack are much harsher than with cocaine because black people smoked crack and white people snorted cocaine.
Grape juice. All grape juice has trace amounts of alcohol. So does orange juice. He wasn't "drinking alcohol". Grape juice/wine for sacrament.
Grape juice would have spoiled or fermented, without refrigeration.
And it did. They also used it fresh. It fermented. New grape juice has fermentation already. There is alcohol is all grape juice. Saying he drank wine regularly is a bit disingenuous. He took sacrament regularity. He was sober...