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To: Responsibility2nd

We don’t do wine. We’re Christians.


199 posted on 02/03/2016 7:36:32 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Proud bitter clinger)
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To: MayflowerMadam

“It is a mistake to think that Christians ought all to be teetotallers; Mohammedanism, not Christianity, is the teetotal religion. Of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or of any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point is that he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something which he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying. One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons — marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.”

- C.S. Lewis


217 posted on 02/03/2016 7:43:00 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Wow, you sure are a judge mental person as well as a liar. I think you need to stay off FR for a bit and have some TAWG. You are in sore need of some personal reflection.


343 posted on 02/03/2016 9:22:23 AM PST by CSM (White wine sipping, caviar munching, Georgetown cocktail circuit circulating, Perrier conservative.)
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