[Larry Lucido]

So then....there’s beer?

[wmfights]

You might want to read the article, but in answer to your question why not. If we are in physical form and walk and talk why wouldn't we eat and drink. If you remember Scripture Jesus ate and drank in his resurrected body.

[AceMineral]

In the Eternal Kingdom of God all good things are.

[Mad Dawg]

So then....there’s beer?

You know, keep this up, I could convert .... Just sayin'.

I think that both Plato and Plotinus would complain a little about the way this writer characterizes their thought. Plotinus, in fact, wrote a tractate "Against the Gnostics" -- which I read in 1967, on my own toot!

His principle beef with the Gnostics (whom we consider heretics but he may have thought as typical Xtians) was that they thought the material world was evil. He disagreed.

You know, Dominic, the founder of my order, was motivated in the early 13th century by Albigensians who also thought the created world was evil (or so we are told). They were anti-marriage and, in extreme cases, anti eating! (Beer would have been out of the question -- so clearly they're wrong.)

I'm suspecting the writer of this article wouldn't think much of Dominic or of Thomas Aquinas, the theological shining star of the Order of Preachers. But we were founded, you might almost say, to affirm the goodness of all God's acts, including creation.

So the matter is nuanced.

I'm struggling through preparing my tax return now, Gawd 'elp me, but maybe later an interesting rabbit-hole to disappear down would be the meaning and role of the vision of God in Scripture and our differing views.

And, Mr. Lucido, there are members of certain orders who carry out the Lenten discipline by consuming nothing but beer. Again, just sayin'.

If I were rich enough to have a chauffeur I would definitely give it a try some Lent.

[Lee N. Field]

So then....there’s beer?

There are many things we want to know about the age to come that Jesus, John, Paul et al did not seem to think was anything we needed to know.