The current anti-alcohol political campaign, running in #Germany, is a twofold attack against #Christians and fertility.
Discussion
Que all the npubs,
* who are childless,
* not practicing Christians,
* and/or not genetic Germans
insisting that alcohol is bad bad bad and useless and that we can just assume that over a thousand years of evolution spent consuming alcohol is irrelevant also there are too many humans and they're melting the glaciers and have I tried shrooms?
childless and not genetic german (distantly, tho)... i pray, but my beliefs are pretty unconventional (regarding angels)
- alcohol is good for what alcohol is good for
- weed is better for what i need it for but it's difficult to get it and way overpriced and quality way low
- mushrooms are interesting, so is DMT
- the sun is melting the ice caps because the magnetic field is weakening and UV light makes ice melt, the auroras are a signal that the levels of radiation penetrating the atmosphere is higher than normal, and so all these other things happen, other consequences are: more earthquakes, more volcanic eruptions, more rain, more storms, a reduction in average temperature over time due to increased cloud cover (has effect most within the 4 years surrounding the solar max), and not to forget, the magnetic field is moving extremely fast, so much that it's affecting air navigation systems, and it's making people more crazy, making psychopaths more psycho, increasing rates of cardiovascular and cancer disease (just another of the inputs here on all points about humans) and disrupting animal migration and further messing up especially insect hive viability, which has a knock on effect to all especially flowering plants
yeah, too many things
i have a rule about what i think of activism:
if the activist is about nagging people and getting media coverage to make laws, it's communism or communism adjacent
if it's about building technologies that allow humans to evade teh influence of these activists, it's freedom
As someone with African-American ancestry, I am very very aware of the fact that any campaign against a recreational drug is _always_ an attack on the ethnicity or demographic prone to consuming them.
We have all been ordered to switch from alcohol to marijuana, basically, because alcohol is considered #stuffwhitepeoplelike .
This is racism, masquerading as a health campaign.
Remember, that they killed small clubs and restaurants (and made everyone fat) by demonizing cigarettes.
They are now going after fests and parties and Catholic masses, by demonizing alcohol.
They are allowing marijuana because lots of refugees were getting arrested for selling or using it.
DON'T FORGET THAT THE WAR ON DRUGS ABSOLUTELY DECIMATED BLACK AMERICA. THE GOVERNMENT HATES YOU AND WANTS YOU TO BE MISERABLE, HAVE NO FRIENDS, ROT IN PRISON, AND DIE OUT.
Never forget what they did to us.
I vote for marijuana even though i make some wine and tsipouro. I rarely consume any of these thing though...
Having a hard time finding anything on this. Outsiders perspective would put anti-alcohol in line with Christianity..
What’s going on over there?
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...
There have been a number of "dry societies" throughout history.
The thing is...no one remembers their accomplishments, because those civilizations didn't produce anything of lasting value. The greatest civilizations in history *featured* alcohol; they didn't exclude it.
How is it an attack against fertility? I'm not yet seeing that connection.
You don't know how antisocial Germans are, when they're stone-sober.
i can also confirm that i have been a big fan of a certain kind of german-invented culture called "industrial music" and beer and vodka are an intrinsic part of that culture... for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RibfuH4yF04
technically he's finnish but near enough
Same difference. 😂
this is the evidence that Andy La Plegua is really german:
also, have you ever thought about the fact that the word germane is the same except one letter?
"Germane" stems from the French "germain" and "German" stems from the Latin "Germani". Don't know if germain and Germani are connected.
you just said they were!
The Germani is the name of a tribe, apparently. It comes from a different language and was integrated by Julius Caesar.
well, there you go
did you know there was a tribe of germans on the east of what is the modern borders called "sorb" and the history of this is very obscured but supposedly someone of this tribe got a grant of property in what is now modern former yugoslavia
i forget what other interesting things there were related to this but having spent a lot of time in serbia i can confirm that serbians are very german, except with bad tempers
The entire German race is mildly autistic and sensory-avoiding. That's why we're known for being diligent, focused, and hardworking. But we have trouble relaxing and engaging in physical intimacy.
If we're completely sober all the time, Germans stop cuddling and socializing, and hide in our homes.
People keep telling me that they "don't need alcohol to have fun", but I guarantee you that the average birth rate of women in the "alcohol is dumb, let's just sip tea" camp is lower than in the "let's get drunk and laid" camp.
This is why the "let's just sip tea" camp has completely overtaken all public ceremonies, media, religious traditions, etc. It's cuz the rest of us want to have some beer and get laid, so we abandon the society they rule over.
haha, this is partly sheer biochemistry too
ethanol accelerates testosterone synthesis and elevated testosterone makes women horny
It really does, for everyone, but it all goes double for anyone with Viking ancestry. Probably, also, East Asians. Vikings are also partly descended from East Asians, so that might be the link.
Because it has a negative effect on health, if you overdo it, they want to ban it. But even eating normal food will injure you, if you over do it.
Step 1: stop social drinking
Step 2: stop socializing
Step 3: stop breeding
Step 4: start smoking weed, eating shrooms, or fantasizing about The Singularity, to deal with the depression of living in a dying society of the perpetually sober and frigid
Dang, I guess I'm used to horny American culture (though we're all hopped up on birth control, which is a different problem).
The Biden admin's U.S. Surgeon General issued an "Advisory on Alcohol and Cancer Risk" earlier this month. Shortly after the LA Times ran an opinion piece specifically aimed at Christians, using the Advisory to try and convince "people of faith [to] rethink sacramental wine".
Summary of our church's position:
Also, for what it is worth, I have some German in me.