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Originally Posted by Iggy
I prefer to obey God's commandments and not obey mortal men when the things that they espouse go against the teachings of God and his modern day Prophets.
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But getting it back on track to the original discussion, the different religions have different teachings of God, and of course, we need to follow our own beliefs and our own religious teachings.
So I have no problem with the Christian who wants to drink Beer, or the Mormon who doesn't want to drink Beer.
I, as a non Mormon, will do what I think is required of me. That includes having the freedom to enjoy whatever I consider to be allowed in my faith. I do not consider alcohol to be a poison for X, Y and Z reasons - clearly stated previously.
If I joined the Mormon church (four weeks to my first visit), I would duly give up alcohol. But I still wouldn't consider alcohol a poison or damaging to the body when drunk responsibly.
And no amount of repetition of "I knew this person who drank responsibly and still had problems" is going to persuade me otherwise. That person drank every day of his life, could be considered an alcoholic and in any event probably had cirrhosis due to something other than alcohol.
When I hear these gross exaggerations and sweeping statments about alcohol being the cause of abuse, or comments about fat people only being fat because they drink alcohol and have cirrhosis, I worry.
People are the cause of abuse, not alcohol. I know many "thin" people who drink and are not fat. I know fat people who don't drink!
Combined with my knowledge and my experience, when I hear these comments, I believe even more that if HF doesn't want us to drink, it's not because the responsible consumption of alcohol is damaging, it's because we're irresponsible. We are the ones who are damaging.
People have immature attitudes to alcohol. We equate alcohol with abuse and cannot separate one from the other. We don't know the first thing about drinking responsibly and staying in control. I figure HF is thinking, right, you've shown you're not responsible, you can't be trusted with drink so I don't want you to drink it - it's not for the belly.