Why do religious people say drink is evil?

Question

I recall reading somewhere that Jesus turned water into wine at a party! I bet that was some "Do"?

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Answer 1

Have you been drinking again??? Forget about Jesus and his Dos, you should come to one of the Devils BBQs, now thats a party.

Abdijah - if getting drunk is wrong you can spank my @rse and call me a naughty girl.
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Yes cheeky i read that, and you didn't look that bad the next morning..

Answer 2

Well ...

just as Catholics say that priests shouldn't marry this is really just an interpretation that some take of scripture or an amendment to teachings that some add in light of their inability to do certain things in moderation.

One can marry as a priest, just that he shouldn't have a harem as some priests did prior to the Catholic edict forbidding their priests to marry. Just as people shouldn't gey drunk all the time because that leads to idleness and ill planned irresponsible behaviour, the sort that was engaged in by earlier Americans particularly southerners of Scottish and Irish descent prior to some American churches declaring drink the "wine of the devil" in the 18th and 19th century. The problem that some may have with those religious edicts (especially coming from) southern baptists and the like in the 18th and 19th century is that many a wayward Christian in a position of authority back then used to use scriptures to justify everything from theft to rape to slavery!

Answer 3

Alcohol is banned in Islam, but not in the Old or New Testaments of the Bible.

So Christians and Jews are permitted to drink alcohol. You are right, Jesus did turn water into wine at a wedding feast, and He drank wine Himself at the last supper.

It is not alcohol that is evil, but the abuse of alcohol, i.e. drinking to excess. In fact it is written in Proverbs in the Old Testament that, 'a little wine is good for the digestion'. Modern science has just caught up with this sentiment, as we are now told that a glass of red wine a day is good for our health, the antioxidants it contains are especially good for the heart.

Although drinking wine is banned in Islam, apparently it is allowed in the Islamic version of Heaven, which seems somewhat contradictory.

Answer 4

Not drink, drunkenness. Jesus created gallons of wine at the wedding in Cana. Paul advised Timothy to drink a little wine for the sake of his health. He also told people "Let no one judge you concerning meat or drink." Colossians 2:16. He also said that, if a person who claims to be a believer is a drunk, to expel him from the church and not to even eat with him (1 Corinthians 5).

Answer 5

Not all religious people think drinking is evil. Getting drunk is wrong.

Jesus said that no matter what you believe, people will find fault with your belief. His exact words were:

"Correspondingly, John [the Baptist] came neither eating nor drinking, yet people say, ‘He has a demon’; the Son of man did come eating and drinking, still people say, ‘Look! A man gluttonous and given to drinking wine, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ All the same, wisdom is proved righteous by its works."

Answer 6

Who said drink is evil?
You just have to drink moderately, because otherwise you can lose your good judgement and do something you might regret (it doesn't even matter if you have a religious perspective on it or not).
And that wasn't "a party", it was the celebration of a wedding.

Answer 7

My religion doesn't think it is evil to drink. They just advise to do it in moderation. That way it saves you from waking up in a strange place with a strange person without any memory of how you got there. Moderation. That's all they ask.

Answer 8

Don't worry about it. All the more for us.

But, it probably reduces the amount in the collection plate.


Extra thoughts: Biblical thoughts in fact.

wine is a mocker, Strong drink a raging lion - Proverbs

Wine that maketh glad the heart of man - Psalms

Hmm. seems to be some contradiction here.

Answer 9

Luke 21:34-36 (King James Version)

34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Answer 10

For they do not know the true joy of Jack Daniels, and if I am much mistaken ever Priest and Vicar I know drink like a fish, especially my nan's priest. I agree though if it were true it would have been one hellava party.