[chuckles]

Yeah, I'm in a dry county in Texas and you have to join a “private club” to order alcohol in an establishment. Some people would have 10-12 cards in their wallet to prove their “membership”. Recently, the county next to us went wet and it's odd to see the people drinking after so many years of trying to convince the Deacon's of the church that “It wern’t them!”

[HiTech RedNeck]

Baptists are theologically a bit overboard about this, IMH biblically literate O.

Theories of grape juice “wine” just seem to fall flat in light of history and practicality. With no refrigeration and no canning or pasteurization, unfermented juice would be a specialty for a few weeks of the year at most. Drinking alcoholic wine, or else abstaining from all grape products, is universally acknowledged as a normal Jewish practice of the time. I don’t drink publicly, though. So I might not fit perfectly into just any ole fundamentalist Baptist church, but by and large I’d get along with them pretty well.