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- From: kenneths@tropicana.ai.mit.edu (Kenneth J. Schneider)
- Newsgroups: alt.beer
- Subject: Re: EVIL
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 21:00:57 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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- Sender: kenneths@tropicana (Kenneth J. Schneider)
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- |> Beer drinkers must repent. Alcohol drunk for pleasure is sinfull.
- |> Not only does it give man the mind of a cock, but it makes him
- |> impotent-both spiritually and physically.
- |>
- |> This is from Jason.
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-
- i would have to disagree with you.
- 1) i drink beer ==> i drink alcohol to intoxicated ==> i sin
- does not necessarily follow. i try to live my life in the
- way i believe most pleasing to God, but believe that drinking beer
- is very interesting on its own, apart from getting drunk. first,
- it can be regarded as a social drink, such as tea, wine or coffee.
- second it has a wealth of history (at least 7k years, it looks
- like). third, much of it tasted GOOD; the darker (real) beers
- require getting used to, as does strong coffee, but i found them
- very pleasant after only a few times.
-
- 2) I agree getting drunk usally sinful, but, as above, does
- not imply that drinking beer is sinful. is ingesting cough syrup
- sinful?
-
- 3) alcohol, not beer in itself, makes one "impotent"
-
-
- the bible instructs us to treat our bodies as temples of God (i cor. 6), but
- what we do in response to that is a very hard question. i know that i abuse
- my body much more by using caffeine to stay awake 50 hrs to do homework than
- i do by drinking alcohol. i find this behavior much more displeasing to God
- than drinking beer, and try not to do it often. to push the point a bit
- further, all of us ingest chemical preservatives in the food we eat, and i
- don't find many christians on the bandwagon against preservatives and
- additives! nor do i find many making a conscious effort to eat healthily and
- exercise regularly. yet many people in the world are destroying their
- bodies/temples is this manner.
-
- finally, i find your post inciteful and with the intention of making people
- mad. it is also in the vein of many church teachings which are presumptious
- and ignorant. i love god and i love his church but by posting such letters,
- especially without ANY scripture to back it up, you are furthering the causes
- of neither. may God uses this post to further his kingdom.
-
- sincerely
- kenneth schneider
-
-
- ps: sorry this was so serious!
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-