If Jesus had never turned water into wine, hundreds of thousands of deaths (and counting) may have never occurred. Actually, all of the wars in the history of mankind were fought in the name of God, so I guess you could credit Jesus (or his foreign equivalents) for hundreds of millions of deaths, but that's another scoop of ice cream all together. My point here is, if alcohol was completely absent from the Bible, our culture may not look at it as such a Godsend.
While American jails fill up with harmless marijuana offenders, alcohol kills; It ruins judgment, reputations, and lives...but there is no escape...Booze ads are everywhere...Bars line the streets...Alcohol related behavior is tolerated... Expected...Encouraged?
It is legal to drive with alcohol in your blood. Only it's a game. Individuals are responsible for monitoring their own B.A.L.'s, but no available way to do so exists. This creates a dangerous guessing game, and we leave the guessing up to the intoxicated individual, even when evidence overwhelmingly proves that alcohol dissolves a person's judgment. Why do we allow this deadly cycle to continue?
Because alcohol is in the bible, so it can't be that bad.
It is amazingly stupid how people interpret the Bible to suit their needs, but it's been going on since the beginning. At least Jesus never tried a line of Meth...
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