This week, the Southern Baptist Convention resolved to ban alcohol--declaring that all practicing members of the demonination should abstain from it. Now, neither my wife nor I drink anything whatsoever, so the resolution doesn't bother me because it convicts me.
What bothers me is the legalistic nature of the ban. Are we not drawing lines where the Lord has not? Anyway, I ran into a new blog that cracks me up: Purgatorio. This post concerning this issue made me laugh out loud. It's Anhieser Busch's response to the SBC ban, and we should be humbled that a beer company made a nice jab.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
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You are right. Besides the typical Southern Baptist legalism, there is another issue: alcohol does not cause sin. While it is true that alcohol is a facilitator, it is not the root of the problem (i.e. intoxication causes you to more readily defy your self-control). The same is true of the oft mis-quoted “Money is the root of all evil” or corrected: “the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils.” Simply assigning blame to an object relieves a person of the responsibility for the desire to commit the offense. “I hit my wife because I am a wicked person, filled with anger and jealousy, and desired to injure her. The alcohol just relieved me of my sense of self preservation which previously prevented me from doing so.” evolves into “I hit my wife because I was drunk.” The propensity of a person to sin is the seed; alcohol/money is the fertilizer, and opportunity is the water.
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