About Alcoholic Bevarages

This is a rant, not a research paper.
I expect lies from the world at large. Wherever there is profit in lies, they will most certainly be told. That’s on top of lies which really offer no particular advantage, but appear to, or are simply for the sake of entertainment. I get tired of hearing the world’s lies from Christians.
A primary example is the large temperance community among Christians.
The notion it’s a sin to indulge arises from the same people who brought us Arminian theology, sociology, the Salvation Army and liberal theology in general. (Look, the SA are nice people, but their legalistic theology and rigid structure stinks.) It’s all part of the same package. It’s the idea you can scientifically devise a climate which forces people to be moral, which then goes deeper to the damned heresy there is no Holy Spirit who can move in the hearts of men. They deny man has a spirit, insisting the human intellect is the upper limit of things. Fix the environment and the intellect and all will be well, they say. This whole mess is one of the logical paths left open when you embrace Aristotle and deny the Spirit Realm.
Yes, I’ve read lots of stuff from that branch of Christianity, and I did so well after I got my training in philosophy and logic. Read between the lines and that’s where their words take you. Notice how they implement what they say, and you’ll understand it doesn’t mean what it appears to mean. I could publish a book to show the thread of logic here, but if your intuition works at all, you’ll grasp how I got here. You’ll see how those who have swallowed this blasphemy are brothers in arms with a whole range of folks who think they can bring God’s redemption to earth by taking over the governing institutions. They seek to impose holiness, but they can’t even get that part right, because they reject all the underlying assumptions of God’s Laws.
Prohibition didn’t fail because it was poorly done. It failed because God is against it. Look, if God had a problem with drinking, He’d have made Jesus dry. Jesus did correct a lot of false ideas, showing how Moses’ Law was actually pretty loose on some things (like divorce), but if He consumed fermented grape juice, that’s because it was okay. Alcohol is not the issue. Nor can you say it’s in the DNA. Yes, there are people who have inherited a weakness for alcohol — one taste and they go berserk. There are such folks, but we can’t allow them to become the poster children for everyone else’s discomfort. Most of humanity suffers any number of similar types of weaknesses, complete lack of resistance to one vice or another, but Christians fail to include the whole counsel of God on this. I’m sitting here typing this and resisting temptations which would destroy me, because they involve things I can’t control by any human means. Yet if the control does not come from within, nothing man can do as a whole will fix that.
When a human becomes spiritually aware, when God breathes life into their dead spirits, the whole game is changed. Yes, they need help early on, but even that is a mere matter of averages. Some come into it needing less help than others. The main thing is letting each person find their own dose of God’s power. Failure is expected, right up to the end of life. Even those “born again” cannot be made perfect in the flesh, so the spiritually dead are more certainly imperfectible.
God has delineated a pretty solid structure for what can be done to give people reasonable restraints such that human life is tolerable. You don’t make it better by adding or subtracting. Temperance is not in the Bible. It arose in recent history from the very people who most vociferously rejected the Hebrew epistemology. But if you insist on reading it back into the Bible, you can run all sorts of godless crusades and add your sin to the rest of the human pot of evil.
Me? I’m too poor and a tightwad about many things, including booze. I’ll drink if it fits the occasion, but I haven’t in years. It’s not important either way, but I do like the taste of most alcoholic beverages. My body tells me “stop” after the first one most of the time, and I can’t recall the last time I had more than two servings. I can count on one hand the times I’ve been anywhere near inebriation. I just don’t care, so it’s not my weakness. I have issues, but that’s not one of them.
Christians swallowing the temperance heresy is just about as smart as using Kinsey’s filthy lies to write a Christian sex counseling guide.