Timeline for What is Catholic Church position regarding alcohol?
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| S Jul 18, 2023 at 7:01 | history | suggested | AAM111 |
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| Jul 17, 2023 at 22:24 | comment | added | gaazkam | Related: christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/50757/… | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 19:56 | comment | added | user59106 | Of course! How could I have forgotten that "The Demon Drink" was a popular slogan during the early decades of the 20th century - see here and here. The US may have been the only Western country to adopt prohibition, but it was a close call in NZ. One dictionary definition of demon is "evil spirit", and we refer to whisky, rum, etc as spirits, because it was "the spirit" of the wine (or whatever was distilled). | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 18:20 | comment | added | RonJohn | @Nacht maybe it's just an American thing, which expresses the "demonic" personal, societal and familial destruction wrought by drunkenness. Rum was associated because rum was the most common spirit in the colonies. merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demon%20rum | |
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| Jul 17, 2023 at 10:51 | comment | added | Tristan | @SimonCrase OP says "it becomes a demon" later, so I don't think that interpretation works | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 3:21 | answer | added | user59106 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 3:06 | comment | added | user59106 | @Nacht I think to OP meant: "...alcohol is a gift from God, rather than [the gift of] a demon". Tolstoy wrote a play in which the Devil rebukes one of his staff for failing to corrupt a village of virtuous Russian peasants, and gives him a deadline to make them sin, or else. When the Boss returns a year later, he finds that Junior has invented vodka, and everyone is busily sinning. I think that the play ends with Junior being commended, and told to teach the rest of the staff. | |
| Jul 16, 2023 at 23:27 | comment | added | Nacht | I've never heard of alcohol being referred to as a "demon" from any denomination, did you mean to say something else? | |
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| Jul 16, 2023 at 14:16 | comment | added | Luke Hill | The church is totally fine with alcohol in moderation. There are even some Trappist monks that produce and sell alcohol to provide for their monastery. | |
| S Jul 16, 2023 at 14:04 | history | edited | Ray Butterworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Jul 16, 2023 at 14:04 | history | suggested | agarza | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2023 at 9:16 | answer | added | Andrew Leach | timeline score: 10 | |
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| S Jul 16, 2023 at 8:28 | history | asked | MikeyJY | CC BY-SA 4.0 |